⁹ No one who has been ^(A)born of God practices sin, because His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin continually, because he has been born of God. ¹⁰ By this the ^(B)children of God and the ^(C)children of the devil are obvious: ^[a]anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who ^(D)does not love his ^(E)brother and sister.

²¹ But the one who ^(A)practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealed ^[a]as having been performed in God.”