YHWH'S WORD for young and old [Christian] is Delightful and Enlightening and Helpful:
Here's a small part :
Behold what exotic [foreign to the human heart] love
the Father has permanently bestowed upon us, to the end
that we may be named children [born-ones, bairns] of
God. And we are. On this account the world does not
have an experiential knowledge of us, because it has not
come into an experiential knowledge of Him. Divinely
loved ones, now born-ones of God we are. And not yet has
it been made visible what we shall be. We know absolutely
that whenever it is made visible, like ones to Him we shall
be, because we shall see Him just as He is. And every-
one who has this hope continually set on Him is con-
stately purifying himself just as that One is pure.
Everyone who habitually commits sin, also habitually
combusts lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. And you
know absolutely that that One was manifested in order
that He might take away our sins; and sin in Him does
not exist. Everyone who in Him is constantly abiding is
not habitually sinning. Everyone who is constantly sin-
ning has not with discernment sen Him, nor has he
known Him, with the result that that condition is true of
him at present. Little born-ones, stop allowing anyone to
be leading you astray. The one who habitually does
righteousness is righteous, just as that One is righteous.
The one who is habitually committing sin is out of the
devil as a source, because from the beginning the devil
has been sinning. For this purpose there was manifested
the Son of God, in order that He might bring to naught
the worlds of the devil.
Everyone who has been born out of God with the
present result that he is a born-one of God does not
habitually commit sin because His seed remains in him.
And he is not able habitually to sin, because out of God
he has been born with the present result that he is a
born-one of God. In this is apparent who are the born-
ones of God and the born-ones of the devil. Everyone
who is not habitually doing righteousness is not of God,
also the one who is not habitually loving his brother
[Christian] with a divine and self-sacrificial love.
Because this is the message which you heard from the
beginning, namely, We should habitually be loving one
another with a divine and self-sacrificial love; not even
as Cain [who] was out of the Pernicious One, and killed
his brother by severing his jugular vein. And on what
account did he kill him? Because his works were perni-
cious and those of his brother righteous. Stop marveling,
brethren, if, as is the case, the world hates you. As for
us, we know absolutely that we have passed over per-
mannerly out of the death into the life, because we are
habitually loving the brethren with a divine and self-
sacrificial love. The one who is not habitually loving in
this manner is abiding in the sphere of the death. Every-
one who habitually is hating his brother [Christian] is a
manslayer. And you know absolutely that no manslayer
has life eternal abiding in him.
In this we have come to know by experience the afore-
mentioned love, because that One on behalf of us laid
down His soul. And, as for us, we have a moral obliga-
tion on behalf of our brethren to lay down our souls.
But whoever has as a constant possession the necessities
of life, and deliberately keeps on contemplating his brother
constantly having need, and snaps shut his heart from
him, how is it possible that the love of God is abiding
in him? Litlle born-ones, let us not be loving in the sphere
of word, nor even in the sphere of the tongue, but in
the sphere of deed and truth. In this we shall know
experientially that we are out of the truth, and in His
presence shall tranquilize our hearts in whatever our
hearts condemn us, because greater is God than our
hearts and knows all things. Divinely loved ones, if our
hearts are not condemning us, a fearless confidence we
constantly have facing God the Father, and whatever we
are habitually asking we keep on receiving from Him,
because His commandments we are habitually keeping
with solicitous care, and the things which are pleasing in
His penetrating gaze we are habitually doing.
And this is His commandment, namely, We should
believe the Name of His Son Jesus Christ, and be habit-
ually loving one another even as He gave a commandment
to us. And the one who as a habit of life exercises a
solicitous care in keeping His commandments, in Him is
abiding, and He himself is abiding in him. And in this
we know experientially that He is abiding in us, from the
Spirit as a source whom He gave to us.
FIRST JOHN 3:1-24
The New Testament
An Expanded Translation (from Greek) 1961
reprinted 1996
Kenneth S. Wuest
