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And every prophecy which does not declare that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God: but it is the prophecy of the false Christ, of whose coming you have heard, and who is even now already in the world.

But you are of God, my children, and have overcome them: because he who is among you is greater than he who is in the world.

But we are of God: he who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that God loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear is tormenting. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Who is he who triumphs over the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

This is he who came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And the Spirit testifies that that very Spirit is the truth.

All unrighteousness is sin: but there is a sin which is not worthy of death.

THE minister, to the mother church, and her children, those whom I love in the truth, and not I only, but also all those who have known the truth,

And now I beseech you, O mother church, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

Look to yourselves, that you lose not those things which you have accomplished, but that you receive a full reward.

I have many things to say to you, which I do not want to write with paper and ink: but I trust to come to you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.

Therefore, if I come, I will mention the things which he did, gossiping against us with malicious words: and not content with this, he not only did not receive the brethren, but also forbade those who would like to receive them, and cast them out of the church.

Our beloved, do not follow that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God: but he who does evil has not seen God.

I had many things to write, but I do not want to write them to you with ink and pen:

But I trust I shall shortly see you, and we shall speak face to face.

And the angels that did not keep their first estate but left their own habitation, he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

Yet Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring railing accusation against him, but said, The LORD rebuke thee.

But these men blaspheme against those things about which they do not know: and what they know naturally as dumb beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

But you, my beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our LORD Jesus Christ;