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¹ My little children, these things I write to you that you may not sin. And if any man sins, 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 hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.⁴ He that says, I know him, and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;⁵ but whoever keeps his word, in him truly has the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:⁶ he that says he abides in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.

⁷ Beloved, I don't write a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which you heard.⁸ Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.⁹ He that says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.¹⁰ He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.¹¹ But he that hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

¹² I write to you, [my] little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.¹³ I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.¹⁴ I have written to you, little children, because you know the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.¹⁵ Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.¹⁷ And the world passes away, and the desire thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever.

¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour: and as you heard that antichrist comes, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour.¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us.

²⁰ And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.²¹ I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth.²² Who is the liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, [even] he that denies the Father and the Son.²³ Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn't have the Father: he that confesses the Son has the Father also.²⁴ As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father.²⁵ And this is the promise which he promised us, [even] the eternal life.²⁶ These things I have written to you concerning those that would lead you astray.²⁷ And as for you, the anointing which you received of him abides in you, and you don't need that any one teach you; but as his anointing teaches you; concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you abide in him.

²⁸ And now, [my] little children, abide in him; that, if he shall be manifested, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.²⁹ If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one also that does righteousness is begotten of him.