New Year – Day 10

₁Since you are God's dear children, you must try to be like him.

₁See how much the Father has loved us! His love is so great that we are called God's children — and so, in fact, we are. This is why the world does not know us: it has not known God. ₂My dear friends, we are now God's children, but it is not yet clear what we shall become. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he really is.

₁₀And you have, in fact, behaved like this towards all the brothers and sisters in all Macedonia. So we beg you, our brothers and sisters, to do even more.

₁₂Some, however, did receive him and believed in him; so he gave them the right to become God's children.