1 John 2

₁ My little children, I write these things to you that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father: Jesus Christ, the righteous one. ₂ He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, not for ours only but for the whole world. ₃ And this is how we know that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments. ₄ The person who says, “I know Him” and does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person. ₅ But whoever keeps His word, truly in such a person the love of God has become perfected. This is how we know that we are in Him. ₆ The person who claims to abide in Him ought to walk just as He walked.

₇ Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word that you have heard. ₈ Yet I am writing a new commandment to you that is true in itself and in you, that the darkness is dispersing and the true light now shines. ₉ The person who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness. ₁₀ The person who loves a brother or sister abides in the light, and in such a person there is no cause for stumbling. ₁₁ But the person who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks in the darkness and does not know the way to go because darkness has blinded their eyes.

₁₂ I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through His name. ₁₃ I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known Him who was from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, because you have overcome the evil one. ₁₄ I have written to you, children, because you know the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you have known Him who was from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, because you are strong and the word of God abides in you and you have overcome the evil one. ₁₅ Do not love the world neither the things in the world; if anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in them. ₁₆ For everything that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride concerning one’s life—comes not from the Father but from the world. ₁₇ The world and its desires pass away, but the person who does the will of God remains forever.

₁₈ Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now, many antichrists have appeared; this is how we know that it is the last hour. ₁₉ They went out from us, but they did not belong to us, for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but they made it plain that none of them belong to us. ₂₀ But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know this. ₂₁ I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, rather because you do know it and that no lie is of the truth.

₂₂ Who is the liar? Is it not the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son. ₂₃ Every person who denies the Son does not have the Father; the person who confesses the Son also has the Father. ₂₄ Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you will also abide in the Son and in the Father. ₂₅ And this is the promise that He promised us: eternal life. ₂₆ I have written these things to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you. ₂₇ And the anointing that you received from Him abides in you, and so you have no need that anyone should teach you, but just as His anointing teaches you about everything—and it is true and not a lie—even as He taught you, abide in Him.

₂₈ And now, little children, abide in Him so that when He appears we may have confidence and not be put to shame before Him at his coming. ₂₉ If you know that He is righteous, then you also know that every person who does what is right has been born of Him.