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and the life was manifestedrevealed, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifestedrevealed to us— |
1:9 |
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, toso that He will forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. |
2:2 |
and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for thosethe sins of the whole world. |
2:5 |
but whoever keepsfollows His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: |
2:6 |
the one who says that he abidesremains in Him ought, himself toalso, walk injust the same manner as He walked. |
2:9 |
The one who says that he is in the Light and yet hates his brother or sister is in the darkness until now. |
2:10 |
The one who loves his brother abidesand sister remains in the Light, and there is nonothing causein forhim stumblingto incause himstumbling. |
2:11 |
But the one who hates his brother or sister is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes. |
2:12 |
I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you foron account of His name’s sake. |
2:14 |
I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abidesremains in you, and you have overcome the evil one. |
2:17 |
The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God livescontinues to live forever. |
2:19 |
They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shownevident that they all are not of us. |
2:22 |
Who is the liar butexcept the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. |
2:24 |
As for you, letsee that abidewhat in you which you heard from the beginning remains in you. If what you heard from the beginning abidesremains in you, you also will abideremain in the Son and in the Father. |
2:27 |
AsAnd as for you, the anointing which you received from Him abidesremains in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abideremain in Him. |
2:28 |
Now, little children, abideremain in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrinkdraw awayback from Him in shame at His coming. |
2:29 |
If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness isalso has been born of Him. |
3:1 |
See how great a love the Father has bestowedgiven on us, that we would be called children of God; and suchin fact we are. For this reason the world does not know us,: because it did not know Him. |
3:3 |
And everyone who has this hope fixedset on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. |
3:6 |
No one who abidesremains in Him sins continually; no one who sins continually has seen Him or knows Him. |
3:8 |
the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinnedbeen sinning from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. |
3:9 |
No one who ishas been born of God practices sin, because His seed abidesremains in him; and he cannot sin continually, because he ishas been born of God. |
3:10 |
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother and sister. |
3:11 |
For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we shouldare to love one another; |
3:12 |
not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slewmurdered his brother. And for what reason did he slaymurder him? Because his own deeds were evil, andbut his brother’s were righteous. |
3:13 |
Do not be surprised, brethrenbrothers and sisters, if the world hates you. |
3:14 |
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethrenbrothers and sisters. HeThe one who does not love abidesremains in death. |
3:15 |
Everyone who hates his brother or sister is a murderer;, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abidingremaining in him. |
3:16 |
We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethrenbrothers and sisters. |
3:17 |
But whoever has theworldly world’s goods, and sees his brother or sister in need, and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abideremain in him? |
3:18 |
Little children, let’s us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. |
3:19 |
We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will assureset our heart at ease before Him, |
3:20 |
inthat whateverif our heart condemns us;, forthat God is greater than our heart, and He knows all things. |
3:22 |
and whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight. |
3:24 |
The one who keeps His commandments abidesremains in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abidesremains in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us. |
4:3 |
and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. |
4:5 |
They are from the world;, therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. |
4:6 |
We are from God;. heThe one who knows God listens to us; hethe one who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. |
4:7 |
Beloved, let’s us love one another,; for love is from God;, and everyone who loves ishas been born of God and knows God. |
4:8 |
The one who does not love does not know God, forbecause God is love. |
4:9 |
By this the love of God was manifestedrevealed in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we mightmay live through Him. |
4:12 |
No one has ever seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abidesremains in us, and His love is perfected in us. |
4:13 |
By this we know that we abideremain in Him and He in us, because He has given to us of His Spirit. |
4:15 |
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abidesremains in him, and he in God. |
4:16 |
We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abidesremains in love abidesremains in God, and God abidesremains in him. |
4:17 |
By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, sowe also are we in this world. |
4:18 |
There is no fear in love;, but perfect love castsdrives out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. |
4:20 |
If someone says, “I love God,” and yet he hates his brother or sister, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. |
4:21 |
And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God shouldmust also love his brother alsoand sister. |
5:1 |
WhoeverEveryone who believes that Jesus is the Christ ishas been born of God, and whoevereveryone who loves the Father loves the child born of Him. |
5:2 |
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observefollow His commandments. |
5:4 |
For whateverwhoever ishas been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—: our faith. |
5:5 |
Who is the one who overcomes the world, but hethe one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? |
5:9 |
If we receive the testimony of menpeople, the testimony of God is greater; for the testimony of God is this, that He has testified concerning His Son. |
5:12 |
HeThe one who has the Son has the life; hethe one who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. |
5:16 |
If anyone sees his brother or sister committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask and God will, for him, give life to those who commit sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death; I doam not saysaying that he should makeask requestabout for thisthat. |
5:17 |
All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death. |
5:18 |
We know that no one who ishas been born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him. |