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Chiasm

1 John 3:7–10

1 John 3:7–105 matched frames1 pivot

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

  • A 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
    • B 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning.
      • C 8 For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
        • D 9 Whosoever is born of God
          • E 9 doth not commit sin;
            • F 9 for his seed remaineth in him:
          • E' 9 and he cannot sin,
        • D' 9 because he is born of God.
      • C' 10 In this the children of God are manifest,
    • B' 10 and the children of the devil:
  • A' 10 whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
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