1 John 3:10-23 By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.

WNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁰ By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man. ¹¹ For this is the Message you have heard from the beginning--that we are to love one another. ¹² We are not to resemble Cain, who was a child of the Evil one and killed his own brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's actions righteous. ¹³ Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you. ¹⁴ As for us, we know that we have already passed out of death into Life--because we love our brother men. He who is destitute of love continues dead. ¹⁵ Every one who hates his brother man is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has the Life of the Ages continuing in him. ¹⁶ We know what love is--through Christ's having laid down His life on our behalf; and in the same way we ought to lay down our lives for our brother men. ¹⁷ But if any one has this world's wealth and sees that his brother man is in need, and yet hardens his heart against him--how can such a one continue to love God? ¹⁸ Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the lips, but in deed and in truth. ¹⁹ And in this way we shall come to know that we are loyal to the truth, and shall satisfy our consciences in His presence ²⁰ in whatever matters our hearts condemn us--because God is greater than our hearts and knows everything. ²¹ Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have perfect confidence towards God; ²² and whatever we ask for we obtain from Him, because we obey His commands and do the things which are pleasing in His sight. ²³ And this is His command--that we are to believe in His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He has commanded us to do.