1 John 2:1-23
Skip Heitzig
1 John 2 (NKJV™) | |
1 | My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. |
2 | And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. |
3 | Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. |
4 | He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. |
5 | But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. |
6 | He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. |
7 | Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. |
8 | Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining. |
9 | He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now. |
10 | He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him. |
11 | But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. |
12 | I write to you, little children, Because your sins are forgiven you for His name's sake. |
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 wicked one. I write to you, little children, Because you have known the Father. |
14 | I have written to you, fathers, Because you have known Him who is 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 wicked one. |
15 | Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. |
16 | For all that is in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the world. |
17 | And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever. |
18 | Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. |
19 | They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us. |
20 | But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. |
21 | I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth. |
22 | Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. |
23 | Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. |
New King James Version®, Copyright © 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved.
The book of First John was written to a church that was being seduced from within by those who tried to mix worldly philosophy into the faith. Skip Heitzig shows how John defended the truth.
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