1: My little children, these things write I unto you,
that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the
Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: |
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2: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours
only, but also for the sins of the whole world. |
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And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his
commandments. |
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4: He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments,
is a liar, and the truth is not in him. |
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5: But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God
perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. |
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6: He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk,
even as he walked. |
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7: Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old
commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the
word which ye have heard from the beginning. |
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8: Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true
in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now
shineth. |
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9: He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is
in darkness even until now. |
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10: He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is
none occasion of stumbling in him. |
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11: But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in
darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath
blinded his eyes. |
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12: I write unto you, little children, because your sins are
forgiven you for his name's sake. |
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13: I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is
from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have
overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye
have known the Father. |
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14: I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him
that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because
ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome
the wicked one. |
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15: Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.
If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. |
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16: For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the
lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of
the world. |
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17: And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that
doeth the will of God abideth for ever. |
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18: Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard
that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby
we know that it is the last time. |
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19: They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they
had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they
went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
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20: But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all
things. |
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21: I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth,
but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. |
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22: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?
He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. |
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23: Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father:
(but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. |
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24: Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard
from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the
beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the
Son, and in the Father. |
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25: And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even
eternal life. |
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26: These things have I written unto you concerning them that
seduce you. |
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27: But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in
you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing
teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it
hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. |
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28: And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall
appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his
coming. |
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29: If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that
doeth righteousness is born of him. |