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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 2
Christ is our Advocate with the Father—We know God by obedience—Love not the world—Antichrists shall come in the last days.
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1 MY little children,
these things write I unto you, that ye sin not.
aAnd if any man sin, we have an
badvocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
righteous:
2 And he is the
apropitiation for our sins: and not for ours only,
but also for the sins of the whole bworld.
3 And hereby we do know that we know him,
if we akeep his commandments.
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4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth
not his acommandments, is a bliar,
and the truth is not in him.
5 But whoso
akeepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God
perfected: hereby know we that we are bin him.
6 He that saith he
aabideth in him ought himself also so to
bwalk, even as he walked.
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7 aBrethren,
I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had
from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard
from the beginning.
8 Again, a new commandment I
write unto you, awhich thing is true in him and in you:
because the bdarkness is cpast, and
the true dlight now shineth.
9 He that saith he is in the light,
and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
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10 He that
aloveth his bbrother abideth in the
light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
11 But he that hateth his brother
is in darkness, and awalketh in darkness, and knoweth not
whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
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12 I awrite unto
you, little bchildren, because your sins are forgiven you
cfor his dname’s sake.
13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
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15 Love not the
aworld, neither the things that are in the
bworld. If any man love the world, the
clove of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the
world, the alust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes,
and the bpride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the
cworld.
17 And the aworld
bpasseth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the
cwill of God dabideth for ever.
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18 Little children, it is the last
time: and as ye have heard that
aantichrista
shall come,
even now are there many bantichrists; whereby we know that
it is the last time.
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
20 But ye have an
aunction from the bHoly One, and ye know
all things.
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18a antichrist There is
somewhat of a false notion about 'antichrist'. Sensationalism has it that we
are to be on the look out for the coming of 'the antichrist', but in truth
there are many antichrists, plural. All it is to be 'antichrist' is to not
believe in Jesus Christ as the Savior and Redeemer, the very Son of God sent
by the Father to deliver all mankind from the fall if they will but come unto
and believe in him and keep his commandments. Certainly Lucifer is 'the great
antichrist' and those who do not believe in Jesus Christ vary in their
resistence to him. But that is all that it takes to be 'antichrist', to reject
and deny that Jesus is the Christ. And by so denying the Son, Jesus as the
Christ, one also does deny the Father as well; for the Father witnesseth of
the Son and the Son witnesseth of the Father, and the Holy Ghost doeth bear
witness of both the Father and the Son.
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21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
22 Who is a aliar
but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is
bantichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the
same hath not the Father: [but] he that
aacknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
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24 Let that therefore abide in you,
which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the
abeginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in
the Son, and in the Father.
25 And this is the
apromise that he hath promised us, even
beternal life.
26 These things have I
written unto you concerning them that aseduce you.
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27 But the anointing which ye have
received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man
ateach you: but as the same banointing
cteacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie,
and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
29 If ye know that he is righteous,
ye know that every one that doeth arighteousness is
bborn of him.
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