1 John 3:3 Cross References - Moffatt

³ And everyone who rests this hope on him, purifies himself as he is pure.

⁴⁸ You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

³⁶ Be merciful, as your Father is merciful.

⁹ in cleansing their hearts by faith he made not the slightest distinction between us and them.

⁴ endurance produces character, and character produces hope — ⁵ a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.

¹² or again, as Isaiah says, Then shall the Scion of Jessai live, he who rises to rule the Gentiles; on him shall the Gentiles set their hope.

¹ As these great promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates either flesh or spirit; let us be fully consecrated by reverence for God].

⁵ due to the hope which is laid up for you in heaven. You heard of this hope originally in the message of the Truth, in that gospel

¹⁶ And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope,

⁷ that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal."

¹⁸ so that by these two solid facts (the Promise and the Oath), where it is impossible for God to be false, we refugees might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us,

²⁶ Such was the high priest for us, saintly, innocent, unstained, lifted high above the heavens, far from all contact with the sinful,

¹⁴ Aim at peace with all — and at that consecration without which no one will ever see the Lord;

⁴ bestowing on us thereby promises precious and supreme, that by means of them you may escape the corruption produced within the world by lust, and participate in the divine nature —

¹⁴ Then, beloved, as you are expecting this, be eager to be found by him unspotted and unblemished in serene assurance.

⁶ he who says he 'remains in him' ought to live as he lived.

¹⁷ Love is complete with us when we have absolute confidence about the day of judgment, since in this world we are living as He lives.