1 John 3:4
3:4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.
1 John 3:8-10
3:8 The one who practices sin is of the devil,
because the devil has been sinning
from the beginning. For this purpose
the Son of God was revealed: to destroy
the works of the devil.
3:9 Everyone who has been fathered
by God does not practice sin,
because
God’s
seed
resides in him, and thus
he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.
3:10 By this
the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian
– is not of God.