1 John 3:4-6 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.
John is warning us against they idea that a believer can keep on sinning the old sins over and over, and think it really doesn't matter, because when Christ comes, He will take care of our sinful nature, and we'll have to just wait. That ignores Christ's first coming. When He came the first time, He came to take away sins, and He lived sinlessly. If we are going to follow Him, we should not take lightly the reason He came, nor should we ignore the example He set. Blatantly breaking God's law is not consistent with Christ coming to take sin away or to live victorious over it. To do so is to miss the point entirely.
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