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 little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,
2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but the sins of the whole world.
and he — he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,
3 It is by keeping God’s commands that we can be sure we know him.
and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;
4 Whoever says ‘I know him,’ but does not keep his commands, is a liar. The truth has no place in them.
he who is saying, 'I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;
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 whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.
6 whoever claims to live in him should live just as Jesus did.
He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.
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.
Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning — the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning;
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.
again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine;
9 The person who says that they are in the light, and yet hates others, is still in the darkness.
he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;
10 The person who loves others is always in the light, and there is nothing within them to cause them to stumble.
he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not;
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.
and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.
12 Little children, I am writing to you because your sins have been forgiven for Christ’s sake.
I write to you, little children, because the sins have been forgiven you through his name;
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 write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who [is] from the beginning; I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil. I write to you, little youths, because ye have known 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 did write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who [is] from the beginning; I did write to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God in you doth remain, and ye have overcome the evil.
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 ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth 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.
because all that [is] in the world — the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life — is not of the Father, but of 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 doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain — to the age. (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.
Little youths, it is the last hour; and even as ye heard that the antichrist doth come, even now antichrists have become many — whence we 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.
out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but — that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.
20 You, however, have been annointed by the Holy One. You all know the truth.
And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and have known 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 did not write to you because ye have not known the truth, but because ye have known it, and because 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, except he who is denying that Jesus is the Christ? this one is the antichrist who is denying 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.
every one who is denying the Son, neither hath he the Father, [he who is confessing the Son hath the Father also.]
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.
Ye, then, that which ye heard from the beginning, in you let it remain; if in you may remain that which from the beginning ye did hear, ye also in the Son and in the Father shall remain,
and this is the promise that He did promise us — the life the age-during. (aiōnios g166)
26 In writing this to you, I have in mind those who are trying to mislead you.
These things I did write to you concerning those leading 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.
and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.
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, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;
29 Since you know he is righteous, you realise that everyone who does what is right is his child.
if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness, of him hath been begotten.
