003:007 Dear children, let no one lead you astray. The man who acts
righteously is righteous, just as He is righteous.
003:008 He who is habitually guilty of sin is a child of the Devil, because the Devil has been a sinner from the very beginning. The Son of God appeared for the purpose of undoing the work of the Devil.
003:009 No one who is a child of God is habitually guilty of sin.
A God-given germ of life remains in him, and he cannot
habitually sin—because he is a child of God.
003:010 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.
003:011 For this is the Message you have heard from the beginning— that we are to love one another.
003:012 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.
003:013 Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you.
003:014 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.
003:015 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.
003:016 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.