The Book of 1st
John |
1:1-4
What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our
eyes, what we beheld and our hands handled, concerning the Word of Life and the
life was manifested, and we have seen and bear witness and proclaim to you the
eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us what we have
seen and heard we proclaim to you also, that you also may have fellowship with
us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.
And these things we write, so that our joy may be made complete.
1:5-10
And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is
light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have
fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the
truth; but if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have
fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all
sin. If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the
truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous
to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we
say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
2:1-6
My little children, I am writing these things to you that you may not sin.
And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
righteous; and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours
only, but also for those of the whole world. And by this we know that we
have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. The one who says, "I
have come to know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the
truth is not in him; but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has
truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: the one
who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.
2:7-11
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 which you have
heard. On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is
true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light
is already shining. The one who says he is in the light and yet hates his
brother is in the darkness until now. The one who loves his brother abides
in the light and there is no cause for stumbling in him. But the one who
hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not
know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
2:12-14
I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His
name's sake. I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has
been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you
have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because
you know the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him
who has been 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.
2:15-17
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. For all that is in the
world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of
life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. And the world is
passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God abides
forever.
2:18-20
Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming,
even now many antichrists have arisen; from this we know that it is the last
hour. They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they
had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, in order
that it might be shown that they all are not of us. But you have an
anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.
2:21-25
I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do
know it, and because no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but the one
who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies
the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father;
the one who confesses the Son has the Father also. As for you, let that
abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard
from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the
Father. And this is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life.
2:26-27
These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive
you. And as for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in
you, and you have no need for anyone to 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, you abide in Him
2:28-29
And now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have
confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming. If you
know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices
righteousness is born of Him.
3:1-2a
See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called
children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not
know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God,
and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be.
3:2b-6
We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him
just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies
himself, just as He is pure. Everyone who practices sin also practices
lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. And you know that He appeared in
order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. No one who abides in
Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.
3:7-10
Little children, let no one deceive you; the one who practices righteousness is
righteous, just as He is righteous; the one who practices sin is of the devil;
for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared
for this purpose, that He might destroy the works of the devil. No one who
is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin,
because he is born of God. By this the children of God and the children of
the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God,
nor the one who does not love his brother.
3:11-12
For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should
love one another; not as Cain, who was of the evil one, and slew his brother.
And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his
brother's were righteous.
3:13-15
Do not marvel, brethren, if the world hates you. We know that we have
passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who
does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a
murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
3:16-24
We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay
down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has the world's goods, and
beholds his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love
of God abide in him? Little children, let us not love with word or with
tongue, but in deed and truth. We shall know by this that we are of the
truth, and shall assure our heart before Him, in whatever our heart condemns us;
for God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. Beloved, if our
heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we
receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are
pleasing in His sight. And this is His commandment, that we believe in the
name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us.
And the one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him.
And we know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
4:1-6
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they
are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By
this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus
Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess
Jesus is not from God; and this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you
have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. You are
from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is
in you than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore
they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from
God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to
us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
4:7-13
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves
is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God,
for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God
has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to
be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also
ought to love one another. No one has beheld God at any time; if we love
one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. By this we
know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
4:14-5:3
And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the
Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God
abides in him, and he in God. And we have come to know and have believed
the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides
in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this, love is perfected
with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is,
so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love
casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not
perfected in love. We love, because He first loved us. If someone
says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does
not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love
his brother also. Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of
God; and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him. By this we
know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His
commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments;
and His commandments are not burdensome.
5:4-8
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that
has overcome the world__ our faith. And who is the one who overcomes the
world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is the one
who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the
water and with the blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because
the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that bear witness, the Spirit
and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.
5:9-13
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for the witness
of God is this, that He has borne witness concerning His Son. The one who
believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; the one who does not
believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness that
God has borne concerning His Son. And the witness is this, that God has
given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has
the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in
order that you may know that you have eternal life.
5:14-21
And this is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything
according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in
whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask
and God will for him give life to those who commit sin not leading to death.
There is a sin leading to death; I do not say that he should make request for
this. All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.
We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps
him and the evil one does not touch him. We know that we are of God, and
the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And we know that the
Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, in order that we might know
Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ.
This is the true God and eternal life. Little children, guard yourselves
from idols.
2012-11-23