ULT 1YHN Chapter 2

2 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone would sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. 3 And in this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments. 4 The one who says, “I know him,” and is not keeping his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in this one. 5 But whoever keeps his word, in this one truly the love of God has been perfected. In this we know that we are in him: 6 the one saying he remains in him ought, just as that one walked, also to walk himself.

7 Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you heard. 8 Again, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is going away and the true light is already shining. 9 The one saying he is in the light and hating his brother is in the darkness until now. 10 The one loving his brother remains in the light and a stumbling-block is not in him. 11 But the one hating his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

12 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven because of his name. 13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know the one who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. 14 I have written to you, young children, because you know the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you know the one who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one. 15 Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For everything that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life—is not from the Father, but is from the world. 17 And the world is going away, and its desire, but the one doing the will of God remains to eternity.

18 Young children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, indeed now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not from us. For if they had been from us, they would have remained with us, but so that they would be made apparent, that they are all not from us. 20 And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.[fn] 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and that every lie is not from the truth. 22 Who is the liar, if not the one denying that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist, the one denying the Father and the Son. 23 Everyone denying the Son does not have the Father. The one confessing the Son also has the Father. 24 As for you, what you have heard from the beginning, let it remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is the promise that he promised to us—eternal life. 26 I have written these things to you about the ones leading you astray. 27 And as for you, the anointing that you received from him remains in you, and you do not have need that anyone should 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, remain in him.

28 And now, little children, remain in him, so that whenever he appears, we may have boldness and not be put to shame by him at his coming. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone doing righteousness has been begotten from him.

Some ancient manuscripts read and you know all things.

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