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Tyndale Open Study Notes on 1 John 3:9

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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3:9-10 To live righteously means to live in a right relationship with God. (This is in contrast to the false teachers, who held that life in the spirit could not be contaminated by any behavior in a physical body.) This does not mean that we live perfect lives (1:8), but that we keep ourselves in a good relationship with God (1:9).
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