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1 John 1 |
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That
which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen
with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched--this
we proclaim concerning the Word of life. {2} The life appeared;
we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal
life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. {3} We
proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have
fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his
Son, Jesus Christ. {4} We write this to make our joy complete.
{5} This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you:
God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. {6} If we claim
to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not
live by the truth. {7} But if we walk in the light, as he is in
the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus,
his Son, purifies us from all sin. {8} If we claim to be without
sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. {9} If we
confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins
and purify us from all unrighteousness. {10} If we claim we have
not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in
our lives. |
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1 John
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My
dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if
anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our
defense--Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. {2} He is the atoning
sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of
the whole world. {3} We know that we have come to know him if we
obey his commands. {4} The man who says, "I know him," but does
not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. {5}
But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in
him. This is how we know we are in him: {6} Whoever claims to
live in him must walk as Jesus did. {7} Dear friends, I am not
writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the
beginning. This old command is the message you have heard. {8}
Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and you,
because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.
{9} Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is
still in the darkness. {10} Whoever loves his brother lives in
the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble. {11}
But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the
darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has
blinded him. {12} I write to you, dear children, because your
sins have been forgiven on account of his name. {13} I 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 write
to you, dear children, because you have known the Father. {14} I
write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the
beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the
word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one. {15}
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the
world, the love of the Father is not in him. {16} For everything
in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the
boasting of what he has and does--comes not from the Father but from the
world. {17} The world and its desires pass away, but the man who
does the will of God lives forever. {18} Dear children, this is
the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even
now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.
{19} They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us.
For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but
their going showed that none of them belonged to us. {20} But you
have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
{21} I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but
because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. {22}
Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ.
Such a man is the antichrist--he denies the Father and the Son. {23}
No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the
Son has the Father also. {24} See that what you have heard from
the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the
Son and in the Father. {25} And this is what he promised us--even
eternal life. {26} I am writing these things to you about those
who are trying to lead you astray. {27} As for you, the anointing
you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to
teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that
anointing is real, not counterfeit--just as it has taught you, remain in
him. {28} And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when
he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming.
{29} If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who
does what is right has been born of him. |
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1 John 3 |
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How
great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be
called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world
does not know us is that it did not know him. {2} Dear friends,
now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made
known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we
shall see him as he is. {3} Everyone who has this hope in him
purifies himself, just as he is pure. {4} Everyone who sins
breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. {5} But you know
that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no
sin. {6} No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who
continues to sin has either seen him or known him. {7} Dear
children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right
is righteous, just as he is righteous. {8} He who does what is
sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the
beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's
work. {9} No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because
God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been
born of God. {10} This is how we know who the children of God are
and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is
right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his
brother. {11} This is the message you heard from the beginning:
We should love one another. {12} Do not be like Cain, who
belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder
him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous.
{13} Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
{14} We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love
our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. {15}
Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no
murderer has eternal life in him. {16} This is how we know what
love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay
down our lives for our brothers. {17} If anyone has material
possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can
the love of God be in him? {18} Dear children, let us not love
with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. {19} This
then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our
hearts at rest in his presence {20} whenever our hearts condemn
us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. {21}
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence
before God {22} and receive from him anything we ask, because we
obey his commands and do what pleases him. {23} And this is his
command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love
one another as he commanded us. {24} Those who obey his commands
live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in
us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us. |
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1 John
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Dear
friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see
whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out
into the world. {2} This is how you can recognise the Spirit of
God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the
flesh is from God, {3} but every spirit that does not acknowledge
Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you
have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. {4}
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one
who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. {5}
They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the
world, and the world listens to them. {6} We are from God, and
whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not
listen to us. This is how we recognise the Spirit of truth and the
spirit of falsehood. {7} Dear friends, let us love one another,
for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and
knows God. {8} Whoever does not love does not know God, because
God is love. {9} This is how God showed his love among us: He
sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
{10} This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and
sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. {11} Dear
friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
{12} No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives
in us and his love is made complete in us. {13} We know that we
live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. {14}
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be
the Savior of the world. {15} If anyone acknowledges that Jesus
is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. {16} And so we
know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in
love lives in God, and God in him. {17} In this way, love is made
complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of
judgment, because in this world we are like him. {18} There is no
fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do
with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. {19}
We love because he first loved us. {20} If anyone says, "I
love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not
love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not
seen. {21} And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God
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1 John
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Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and
everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. {2} This
is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and
carrying out his commands. {3} This is love for God: to obey his
commands. And his commands are not burdensome, {4} for everyone
born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome
the world, even our faith. {5} Who is it that overcomes the
world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. {6}
This is the one who came by water and blood--Jesus Christ. He did not
come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who
testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. {7} For there are
three that testify: {8} the Spirit, the water and the blood; and
the three are in agreement. {9} We accept man's testimony, but
God's testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he
has given about his Son. {10} Anyone who believes in the Son of
God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has
made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God
has given about his Son. {11} And this is the testimony: God has
given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. {12} He who
has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have
life. {13} I write these things to you who believe in the name of
the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. {14}
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask
anything according to his will, he hears us. {15} And if we know
that he hears us--whatever we ask--we know that we have what we asked of
him. {16} If anyone sees his brother commit a sin that does not
lead to death, he should pray and God will give him life. I refer to
those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to
death. I am not saying that he should pray about that. {17} All
wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death. {18}
We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one
who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him.
{19} We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world
is under the control of the evil one. {20} We know also that the
Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know
him who is true. And we are in him who is true--even in his Son Jesus
Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. {21} Dear children,
keep yourselves from idols. |
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