KJ3 Literal Translation
1 John 2
1 He comforts them against the sins of infirmity. 3 To know God is to keep his commandments.
1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One.
2And He Himself is the propitiation concerning our sins, and not concerning ours only, but also concerning the whole world.
3And by this we know that we have known Him, if we keep His commands.
4The one saying, I have known Him, and not keeping His commands is a liar, and the truth is not in this one.
5But whoever keeps His Word, truly in this one the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.
6The one saying to abide in Him ought so to walk himself even as that One walked.
7Brothers, I do not write a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the Word which you heard from the beginning.
8Again I write a new commandment to you which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true Light already shines.
9The one claiming to be in the light, and hating his brother, is in the darkness until now.
10The one loving his brother rests in the light, and a cause of stumbling is not in him.
11But the one hating his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness blinded his eyes.
12Little children, I am writing to you because you have been forgiven your sins through His name.
13Fathers, I am writing to you because you have known Him from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I am writing to you, little children, because you have known the Father.
14Fathers, I have written to you because you have known the One 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.
15Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
16because everything in the world: the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.
17And the world is passing away, and its lust. But the one doing the will of God abides unto the age.
18Little children, it is a last hour, and as you heard that the antichrist is coming to be, even now many antichrists have come to be, from which you know that it is a last hour.
19They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they were of us, they would have remained with us; but they left so that it might be revealed that they all are not of us.
20And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.
21I did not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because every lie is not of the truth.
22Who is the liar, if not the one denying, saying that Jesus is not the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one denying the Father and the Son.
23Everyone denying the Son does not have the Father. The one confessing the Son also has the Father.
24Therefore, what you heard from the beginning, let it abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you will abide both in the Son and in the Father.
25And this is the promise which He promised us: everlasting life.
26I have written these things to you concerning the ones leading you astray.
27And the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone teach you, but the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and as He taught you, abide in Him.
28And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears we may have confidence, and not be shamed from Him in His coming.
29If you know that He is righteous, know that every one doing righteousness has been generated from Him.
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