1 John 2

¹My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you might not sin. And if anyone might sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One.

²And He is the propitiation for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world.

³And by this we know that we have known Him, if we may keep His commandments.

⁴The one saying, “I have known Him,” and not keeping His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

⁵But whoever may keep His word, truly in him the love of God has been perfected. In this we know that we are in Him:

⁶The one claiming to remain in Him ought, according to the manner that He walked, also himself in the same way to walk.

⁷Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old commandment, which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you heard.

⁸Again, I am writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

⁹The one claiming to be in the light and hating his brother is in the darkness until now.

¹⁰The one loving his brother remains in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.

¹¹But the one hating his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness; and he does not know where he goes, because the darkness blinded his eyes.

¹²I write to you, little children, because the sins have been forgiven you through His name.

¹³I write to you, fathers because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I wrote to you, children, because you have known the Father.

¹⁴I wrote to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

¹⁵Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone should love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

¹⁶because all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the vaunting of life, is not from the Father but is from the world.

¹⁷And the world is passing away, and its desire; but the one doing the will of God remains to the age.

¹⁸Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen, whereby we know that it is the last hour.

¹⁹They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But it is so that it might be made manifest that they are not all of us.

²⁰And you have the anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know.

²¹I did not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because any lie is not of the truth.

²²Who is the liar, except the one denying that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one denying the Father and the Son.

²³Everyone denying the Son, neither does he have the Father. The one confessing the Son has the Father also.

²⁴You, let that which you heard from the beginning remain in you. If that which you heard from the beginning should remain in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

²⁵And this is the promise that He promised us: eternal life.

²⁶I wrote these things to you concerning those leading you astray.

²⁷And you, the anointing that you received from Him remains in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things and is true and is not a lie, and just as it taught you, remain in Him.

²⁸And now, little children, remain in Him, so that when He should be made manifest, we might have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.

²⁹If you know that He is righteous, you know also that everyone doing righteousness has been born of Him.