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1 John 3:1
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1 Behold awhat manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that bwe should be called children of1 God! Therefore the world does not know2 us, cbecause it did not know Him.  
2 Beloved, anow we are children of God; and bit has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, cwe shall be like Him, for dwe shall see Him as He is.  
3 aAnd everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.  

Sin and the Child of God

4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and asin is lawlessness.  
5 And you know athat He was manifested bto take away our sins, and cin Him there is no sin.  
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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
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1 John 3:1

What manner of love (potaphn agaphn). Qualitative interrogative as in II Peter 3:11; Matthew 8:27. Only here in John's writings. Originally of what country or race.

Hath bestowed (dedwken). Perfect active indicative of didwmi, state of completion, "the endowment of the receiver" (Vincent).

That we should be called (ina klhqwmen). Sub-final use of ina with the first aorist passive subjunctive of kalew, to call or name, as in Matthew 2:23.

Children (tekna). As in John 1:12 and with an allusion to gegennhtai in I John 2:29 in an effort "to restore the waning enthusiasm of his readers, and to recall them to their first love" (Brooke).

And such we are (kai esmen). "And we are." A parenthetical reflection characteristic of John (kai nun estin in John 5:25 and kai ouk eisin in Revelation 2:2; Revelation 3:9) omitted by Textus Receptus, though, in the old MSS.

Because it knew him not (oti ouk egnw auton). Second aorist active indicative of ginwskw, precisely the argument in John 15:18 f.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 John 3:1:

John 3:16
John 5:42
1 John 5:11
Revelation 2:2

 

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