📖WEB · 1 John 3:2

What does 1 John 3:2 mean?

"Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is."

— 1 John 3:2 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

1

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

2

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

3

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

4

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

5

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

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