BG - New Testament

Chapter 2

Christ is our Advocate with the Father—We know God by obedience—Love not the world—Anti-Christs will come in the last days.

1. My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not.

And if any man sin, we have an

advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

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2. And he is the

propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole

world.

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3. And hereby we do know that we know him, if we

keep his commandments.

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4. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his

commandments, is a

liar, and the truth is not in him.

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5. But whoso

keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are

in him.

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6. He that saith he

abideth in him ought himself also so to

walk, even as he walked.

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Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

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8. Again, a new commandment I write unto you,

which thing is true in him and in you: because the

darkness is

past, and the true

light now shineth.

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9. He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

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10. He that

loveth his

brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

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11. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and

walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

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12. I

write unto you, little

children, because your sins are forgiven you

for his

name’s sake.

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13. I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

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14. I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

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15. Love not the

world, neither the things that are in the

world. If any man love the world, the

love of the Father is not in him.

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16. For all that is in the world, the

lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the

pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the

world.

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17. And the

world

passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the

will of God

abideth for ever.

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18. Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that

antichrist shall come, even now are there many

antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

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19. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

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20. But ye have an

unction from the

Holy One, and ye know all things.

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21. I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

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22. Who is a

liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is

antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

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23. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but] he that

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24. Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the

beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

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25. And this is the

promise that he hath promised us, even

eternal life.

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26. These things have I written unto you concerning them that

seduce you.

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27. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man

teach you: but as the same

anointing

teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

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28. And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

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29. If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth

righteousness is

born of him.

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1a. JST 1 Jn. 2:1 … But if any man sin and repent, we have an advocate …

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