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And praise Your name I write to you, little children,
For Your lovingkindness and Your Because you have known the
truth; Father.
For You have magnified Your word 14 I have written to you, fathers,
above all Your name. Because you have known Him who
In the day when I cried out, You is from the beginning.
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answered me, I have written to you, young men,
And made me bold with strength Because you are strong, and the
in my soul. word of God abides in you,
Proverbs 29:16 And you have overcome
the wicked one.
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When the wicked are multiplied, 15
transgression increases; Do not love the world or the things in the
But the righteous will see world. If anyone loves the world, the love of
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their fall. the Father is not in him. For all that is in the
world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the
1 John 2:1–29 eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father
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My little children, these things I write to but is of the world. And the world is passing
2 you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone away, and the lust of it; but he who does the
sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Je- will of God abides forever.
18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as
sus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is
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the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours you have heard that the Antichrist is coming,
only but also for the whole world. even now many antichrists have come, by
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Now by this we know that we know Him, if
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we keep His commandments. He who says, “I went out from us, but they were not of us; for
if they had been of us, they would have con-
know Him,” and does not keep His command- tinued with us; but they went out that they
ments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of
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God is perfected in him. By this we know that were of us.
But you have an anointing from the Holy
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we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him One, and you know all things. I have not
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ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
7 Brethren, I write no new commandment to
you, but an old commandment which you
have had from the beginning. The old com-
mandment is the word which you heard from 2:16 all that is in the world. While the world’s
the beginning. Again, a new commandment I philosophies and ideologies and much that it
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write to you, which thing is true in Him and in offers may appear attractive and appealing,
you, because the darkness is passing away, that is deception.Its true and pervasive nature
and the true light is already shining. is evil, harmful, ruinous, and satanic. Its deadly
He who says he is in the light, and hates
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his brother, is in darkness until now. He who of God and hold the souls of men captive
(2 Cor. 10:3–5). lust. John uses the term nega-
loves his brother abides in the light, and tively here for a strong desire for evil things.
there is no cause for stumbling in him. But flesh. The term refers to the sin nature of man;
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he who hates his brother is in darkness and the rebellious self dominated by sin and in
walks in darkness, and does not know where opposition to God (Rom. 7:15–25; 8:2–8; Gal.
he is going, because the darkness has blinded 5:19–21). Satan uses the evil world system to
his eyes. incite the flesh. eyes. Satan uses the eyes as a
I write to you, little children, 7:20,21; 2 Sam. 11:2; Matt. 5:27–29). Satan’s
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Because your sins are temptation of Eve involved being attracted to
forgiven you for His something beautiful in appearance, but the
name’s sake. result was spiritual death (Gen. 3:6, “pleasant
13 I write to you, fathers, to the eyes”). the pride of life. The phrase has
Because you have known Him who the idea of arrogance over one’s circum-
is from the beginning. stances,which produced haughtiness or exag-
I write to you, young men, geration, parading what one possessed to
Because you have overcome the impress other people (James 4:16).
wicked one.
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