^{2 Ref} beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

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

^{4 Ref} Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,