1 John 2
1 My children, I am writing to you to keep you from sinning. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father – Jesus Christ, the righteous.
My children, I am writing this to you that you may not continue to sin; but if any one sin, we ever have a Comforter before the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.
2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but the sins of the whole world.
And he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.
3 It is by keeping God’s commands that we can be sure we know him.
This is how we may know that we have come to know Him, by always keeping his commandments.
4 Whoever says ‘I know him,’ but does not keep his commands, is a liar. The truth has no place in them.
He who says, "I know Him," but does no continue obeying his commandments, is a liar,
5 But the person who keeps God’s word, in them the love of God has indeed reached its perfection. This is how we can be sure we are in him:
and the truth is not in him; bit if any man obey his word, in him truly is the love of God made perfect. By this we come to know that we are in him.
6 whoever claims to live in him should live just as Jesus did.
By who says he "remains in him" ought to spend his life as he spent his.
7 Dear friends, it is no new command that I am writing to you, but an old command, which you have had from the beginning. That old command is the message you have already heard.
Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, nay, and old commandment, which you have had from the beginning. That old commandment is the message to which you have listened.
8 Yet, in a way, it is a new command that I am writing to you – which is shown true in Christ’s life and in yours – for the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
Yet again it is a new commandment which I am writing to you, which is true in him and is you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.
9 The person who says that they are in the light, and yet hates others, is still in the darkness.
He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now.
10 The person who loves others is always in the light, and there is nothing within them to cause them to stumble.
But he who loves his brother is abiding in the light, and in it there is no cause of stumbling.
11 The person who hates is in the dark. They stumble along in the darkness; they do not know where they are going because the darkness blinds them.
But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and is spending his life in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
12 Little children, I am writing to you because your sins have been forgiven for Christ’s sake.
I am writing to you, little children, because you sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.
13 Parents, I am writing to you because you have come to know him who has been from the beginning. Young people, I am writing to you because you have conquered the evil one. Children, I write to you because you have come to know the Father.
I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have fully overcome the Evil One. I have written to you, little children, because you have learned to know the father.
14 Parents, I write to you because you have learned to know him who has been from the beginning. Young people, I write to you because you are strong, and God’s message is always in your hearts, and you have conquered the evil one.
I have written to you, fathers, because you have learned to know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is abiding in you, and you have fully overcome the Evil One.
15 Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in them.
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.
16 For all that the world can offer – the desires for physical pleasure, the enticements to the eye, the arrogance of wealth – belongs, not to the Father, but to the world.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the proud glory of life, is not from the Father, but from the world;
17 And the world, and all that it gratifies, is passing away, but they who do God’s will remain for ever. (aiōn g165)
and the world and its lusts are passing away, but he who ever does the will of God abides forever. (aiōn g165)
18 My children, it is the last hour. You were told that an antichrist was coming; and many antichrists have already arisen. This is why we know that this is the last hour.
My children, this is the last hour, and as you have heard that an antichrist was coming, and now many antichrists are already risen, whence we may know that it is the last hour.
19 These people come from our ranks, but they were never truly part of us – if they had been then they would have stayed with us. They left so it would be clear that none of them really belonged to us.
They came forth from us, but they did not belong to us. If they had belonged to us they would certainly have remained with us, but they went out that they might be manifest that they all are not of us.
20 You, however, have been annointed by the Holy One. You all know the truth.
Now you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.
21 I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie can come from the truth.
I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and know that no lie is of the truth.
22 Who is a liar, if not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? That person is the antichrist – one who rejects the Father and the Son.
Who is the liar if not the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, even he who disowns the Father and the Son.
23 No one who rejects the Son has the Father; to acknowledge the Son is to have the Father also.
Whoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father; but he who confesses the Son has the Father also. As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you.
24 As for you, you must let what you have heard from the beginning continue to live in you. If what you heard from the beginning dwells in you, you will remain both in the Son and the Father.
If what you have heard from the beginning is abiding in you, you also will ever abide in the Son and in the Father.
And this is the promise which he has promised to us even life eternal. (aiōnios g166)
26 In writing this to you, I have in mind those who are trying to mislead you.
I have written this to you concerning those who would lead you astray.
27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains with you. You do not need anyone to teach you. His anointing teaches you about everything. What it teaches you is true, it is not a lie. Do what it has taught you: abide in him.
As to you, the unction you received from him remains ever in you, and you need no teaching from any one. But since his unction teaches you concerning all things and is true, and is no lie, abide continually in him, as it has taught you to do.
28 Yes, my children, remain in him, so that when he appears our confidence doesn’t fail us, and we are not ashamed to meet him at his coming.
And now continue to abide in him, my children, so that when he shall appear we may have cheerful confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
29 Since you know he is righteous, you realise that everyone who does what is right is his child.
If you know that he is righteous you know also that every one who habitually practises righteousness has been born of him.
