1 John 3:7-8

1 John 3:7-8

[7] Little children,  no man  deceive  he that doeth  righteousness  righteous,  even as  he  righteous.  [8] He that committeth  sin  of  the devil;  for  the devil  sinneth  from  the beginning.  For  the Son  of God  was manifested,  that  he might destroy  the works  of the devil. 

What does 1 John 3:7-8 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

Evidently the false teachers were in danger of deceiving John"s readers by telling them the opposite of what the apostles said here. John"s point was two-fold: conduct manifests spiritual relationship (cf. 1 John 2:29), and God hates sin (cf. 1 John 3:5). A sinner"s sinning has its source in the devil.
"By saying that the person who is a determined sinner (in the sense suggested by 1 John 3:6) "belongs to the devil," John is in the first place drawing on the background of Genesis 3 (1-15), where the power of evil is represented as a serpent who tempts the woman (and, through her, the man) to disobey God (the reference to Cain and Abel in 1 John 3:12 confirms the suggestion that this section of the OT is in mind here)." [1]