3Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.


In Context

1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

3 Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.

4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.

5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin.

1st John 3:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:3And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:3And every one that hath this hope in him, sanctifieth himself, as he also is holy.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:3And every one that hath this hope'set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:3And every one that hath this hope set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:3And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.