1 John 2:1-17 ▼

1 My little children, these things I write to you that you may not sin: and if anyone may sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, [the] Righteous One,

2 and He is [the] propitiation for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for the whole world,

3 and in this we know that we have known Him, if we may keep His commands;

4 he who is saying, “I have known Him,” and is not keeping His commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

5 and whoever may keep His word, truly the love of God has been perfected in him; in this we know that we are in Him.

6 He who is saying he remains in Him, himself ought to also walk according as He walked.

7 Beloved, I do not write a new command to you, but an old command, that you had from the beginning—the old command is the word that you heard from the beginning;

8 again, a new command I write to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light now shines;

9 he who is saying he is in the light, and is hating his brother, he is in the darkness until now;

10 he who is loving his brother, he remains in the light, and there is not a stumbling-block in him;

11 but he who is hating his brother, he is in the darkness, and he walks in the darkness, and he has not known where he goes, because the darkness blinded his eyes.

12 I write to you, little children, because sins have been forgiven you through His Name;

13 I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who [is] from the beginning; I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil [one]; I write to you, little youths, because you have known the Father;

14 I wrote to you, fathers, because you have known Him who [is] from the beginning; I wrote 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 because all that [is] in the world—the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of [one’s] life—is not of the Father, but of the world,

17 and the world is passing away, and the desire of it, but he who is doing the will of God, he remains—throughout the age.