1 John 2:17

Contextual Overview

¹²I am writing to you, little children,since your sins have been forgivenon account of his name. ¹² I write vnto you, little children, because your sinnes are forgiuen you for his Names sake. ¹² I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. ¹² I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name's sake. ¹² I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you on account of His name. ¹² I write to you, dear children, because your sins are forgiven through Christ. ¹²I remind you, my dear children: Your sins are forgiven in Jesus' name. You veterans were in on the ground floor, and know the One who started all this; you newcomers have won a big victory over the Evil One. And a second reminder, dear children: You know the Father from personal experience. You veterans know the One who started it all; and you newcomers—such vitality and strength! God's word is so steady in you. Your fellowship with God enables you to gain a victory over the Evil One. Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity. Children, time is just about up. You heard that Antichrist is coming. Well, they're all over the place, antichrists everywhere you look. That's how we know that we're close to the end. They left us, but they were never really with us. If they had been, they would have stuck it out with us, loyal to the end. In leaving, they showed their true colors, showed they never did belong. But you belong. The Holy One anointed you, and you all know it. I haven't been writing this to tell you something you don't know, but to confirm the truth you do know, and to remind you that the truth doesn't breed lies. So who is lying here? It's the person who denies that Jesus is the Divine Christ, that's who. This is what makes an antichrist: denying the Father, denying the Son. No one who denies the Son has any part with the Father, but affirming the Son is an embrace of the Father as well. Stay with what you heard from the beginning, the original message. Let it sink into your life. If what you heard from the beginning lives deeply in you, you will live deeply in both Son and Father. This is exactly what Christ promised: eternal life, real life! I've written to warn you about those who are trying to deceive you. But they're no match for what is embedded deeply within you—Christ's anointing, no less! You don't need any of their so-called teaching. Christ's anointing teaches you the truth on everything you need to know about yourself and him, uncontaminated by a single lie. Live deeply in what you were taught. And now, children, stay with Christ. Live deeply in Christ. Then we'll be ready for him when he appears, ready to receive him with open arms, with no cause for red-faced guilt or lame excuses when he arrives. Once you're convinced that he is right and righteous, you'll recognize that all who practice righteousness are God's true children. ¹² I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name's sake. ¹²I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through His name. ¹² Children, I am writing you, because your sins have been forgiven in the name of Christ.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the world: Psalms 39:6, Psalms 73:18-20, Psalms 90:9, Psalms 102:26, Isaiah 40:6-8, Matthew 24:35, 1 Corinthians 7:31, James 1:10, James 1:11, James 4:14, 1 Peter 1:24

but: Psalms 143:10, Matthew 7:21, Matthew 21:31, Mark 3:35, John 7:17, Romans 12:2, Colossians 1:9, Colossians 4:12, 1 Thessalonians 4:3, 1 Thessalonians 5:18, Hebrews 10:36, 1 Peter 4:2

abideth: Psalms 125:1, Psalms 125:2, Proverbs 10:25, John 4:14, John 6:58, John 10:28-30, 1 Peter 1:5, 1 Peter 1:25

Reciprocal: Psalms 37:27 - do good Ecclesiastes 2:11 - I looked Matthew 12:50 - do 1 Corinthians 6:2 - the smallest 1 Corinthians 7:29 - the time 2 Corinthians 4:18 - for Ephesians 6:6 - doing Hebrews 13:21 - to do 2 John 1:2 - which Revelation 18:14 - thy soul Revelation 21:4 - the former

Cross-References

Genesis 2:1
The heavens and the eretz were finished, and all the host of them.

Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Genesis 2:1
And heaven and earth and all their array were finished.

Genesis 2:1
So the sky, the earth, and all that filled them were finished.

Genesis 2:1
The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them.

Genesis 2:1
So the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts (inhabitants).

Genesis 2:1
And so the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their heavenly lights.

Genesis 2:1
Thus the heauens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts.

Genesis 2:1
So the heavens and the earth and everything else were created.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the world passeth away,.... Not the matter and substance, but the fashion, form, and scheme of it, 1 Corinthians 7:31; kingdoms, cities, towns, houses, families, estates, and possessions, are continually changing, and casting into different hands, and different forms; the men of the world, the inhabitants of it, are continually removing; one generation goes, and another comes, new faces are continually appearing; the riches and honours of the world are fading, perishing, and transitory things; everything is upon the flux, nothing is permanent; which is another argument why the world, and the things of it, are not to be loved:

and the lust thereof; also passes away; and objects of lust are fading and fleeting, as beauty, and riches, and honours; these are continually taking away from men, or men are taken away from them, and will not be hereafter; and even the pleasure of lust itself passes away as soon as enjoyed; the pleasures of sin are but for a season, and a very short one; and are indeed but imaginary, and leave a real bitterness and sorrow behind them, and at length bring a man to ruin and destruction:

but he that doeth the will of God; not perfectly as contained in the law, which is the good, and perfect, and acceptable will of God; for no man can do that in such a manner, though a regenerate man desires to do it, even as it is done in heaven, and serves the law of God with his mind, and under the influence of the Spirit of God; and does walk in his statutes, and keeps his judgments from a principle of love, in faith, and without mercenary views and sinister ends, without depending on what he does for life and salvation; and such an one may be said to be a doer of the will of God: though rather here it intends such an one as believes in Christ, as the propitiation for his sins, and as his advocate with the Father, and who, makes Christ his pattern and example, and walks as he walked; and particularly observes the new commandment of love, loves God, and Christ, and his fellow Christians, and not the world, and the things of it: and such a man is happy, for he

abideth for ever; in the love of God, which will never depart from him, nor shall he be separated from that; and in the hands and arms of Christ, out of which none can pluck him; and in the family and household of God, where he, as a son, abides for ever, and shall never be cast out; and in a state of justification, and shall never enter into condemnation; and in a state of grace and holiness, from whence he shall never fall totally and finally; and in heaven with Christ to all eternity: the reason of this his abiding is not his doing the will of God, which is only descriptive of him manifestatively, and not the cause of his perpetuity and immovableness; but his eternal election of God, which stands sure, not on the foot of works, but of him that calleth; and the covenant of grace in which he is interested, and which is immovable, sure, firm, and inviolable; and the foundation Jesus Christ, on which he is built; and the principle of grace in him, which always remains, and is connected with eternal life.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the world passeth away - Everything properly constituting this world where religion is excluded. The reference here does not seem to be so much to the material world, as to the scenes of show and vanity which make up the world. These things are passing away like the shifting scenes of the stage. See the notes at 1 Corinthians 7:31.

And the lust thereof - All that is here so much the object of desire. These things are like a pageant, which only amuses the eye for a moment, and then disappears forever.

But he that doeth the will of God abideth forever - This cannot mean that he will never die; but it means that he has built his happiness on a basis which is secure, and which can never pass away. Compare the notes at Matthew 7:24-27.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 17. The world passeth away — All these things are continually fading and perishing; and the very state in which they are possessed is changing perpetually, and the earth and its works will be shortly burnt up.

And the lust thereof — The men of this world, their vain pursuits, and delusive pleasures, are passing away in their successive generations, and their very memory perishes; but he that doeth the will of God-that seeks the pleasure, profit, and honour that comes from above, shall abide for ever, always happy through time and eternity, because God, the unchangeable source of felicity, is his portion.