1 John 3, Revised from "The Practice of the Way"

Do you see of what kind of love the Father had given to us, so that we should be both summoned to be and exist as children of God¹? Because of this the illusion of this world doesn’t recognize us, because it didn’t recognize Him. Dear ones, We are children of God right now, and what we will be wasn’t yet made visible. We know that if it should be made visible, we will be the same as Him because we will see Him just like He is. And every single person possessing this hope upon Him makes himself sacred, just like that One is sacred.

Every single person engaging with the malfunction also engages in lawless behavior, and the malfunction is lawless behavior. And you know that One was made visible so that He would remove these malfunctioning behaviors, and the malfunction doesn’t exist within Him. Every single person making his home within Him doesn’t malfunction; every single person malfunctioning hasn’t seen Him nor experienced Him. Little children, don’t let anyone lead you astray; what [within you] is doing the right behavior is right, just like that One is right; what [within you] is engaging with the malfunction is born of the inner slanderer, because the inner slanderer malfunctions from the start². For this reason the Son of the God was made visible, so that He would undo the works of the inner slanderer. Every single thing [within you] having been birthed from the God doesn’t engage with the malfunction, because His seed makes its home within it, because it had been birthed from the God, and He can’t malfunction. With this the offspring of the God [within you] and the offspring of the inner slanderer [within you] are visible; every single thing not doing the right behavior is not born from the God, including the one not loving its brother.

Because this is the news which you heard from the start, so that we would love one another, not just like Kayin was of the good for nothing one and cut the throat of his brother; and for the sake of what did he cut his throat? Because his actions were good for nothing yet his brother’s right. And don’t be shocked, brothers, if the illusion of this world hates you. We know that we had been transitioned from Death into Life because we are loving the brothers: the person not loving makes his home within Death. Every single thing [within you] hating his brother is homicidal, and you know that every single homicidal thing doesn’t possess the life of the Eternal One making its home within it. With this we became experienced with love, because that One laid down His breath of life on our behalf; we are also obligated to lay down our breaths of life on behalf of the brothers. And whoever would have the means of living of the illuson of this world and should watch his brother having a need and should close his deepest feelings from him, how does the love of the God make its home within him? Little children, we shouldn’t love by message nor by tongue but with action and reality.

With this we will know that we are of Reality, and in front of Him we will convince our heart, if our heart should experience something against us, that the God is bigger than our heart and experiences everything. Dear ones, if our heart shouldn’t experience anything against us, we have a freedom to speak facing the God and whatever we ask we get from Him, because we keep his commands and do the things pleasing in front of Him. And this is His command, for us to put our trust in the name of His Son, Yeshua the Anointed and would love one another, just like He gave a command to us. And the person keeping His commands makes his home within Him and He within him; and with this we experience that He is making his home within us from the Pneuma which He gave to us.

1I am reminded here of the Roman practice of a father “adopting” his own biological children, legally acknowledging them as his. Notably, there is no definite article before θεος here and later where the same term, τεκνια θεου, is used. Rather than specifying “children of the God” it might also be rendered “divine children,” that is, children born from God as substance.

2Consider Paul’s distinction between the “new human being” and the “old human being,” and also his explicit teaching on the antagonism between the pneuma and the flesh in Romans 7 and Galatians 5.