1 John 2
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1My little children, I am writing you these things so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate # 2:1 Jn 14:26 with the Father — Jesus Christ the righteous one. 2He himself is the atoning sacrifice # 2:2 Or the propitiation,# 2:2 Rm 3:25; 2Co 5:21; Heb 2:17; 1Jn 4:10 for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world. # 2:2 Mt 26:13; 28:19–20; Mk 14:9; Rm 1:8
God’s Commands
3This is how we know # 2:3 Jn 13:35; 1Jn 2:5; 3:19,24; 4:2,6,13; 5:2 that we know him: if we keep his commands. # 2:3 Jn 14:15; 15:10 4The one who says, “I have come to know him,” and yet doesn’t keep his commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5But whoever keeps his word, # 2:5 Jn 14:23 truly in him the love of God is made complete. This is how we know we are in him: # 2:5 Jn 6:56; 14:20; 15:1–7; Rm 8:1; 2Co 5:17; Eph 2:10; Php 1:1 6The one who says he remains in him # 2:6 Jn 15:4–7; 1Jn 2:24,27–28; 3:6,24; 4:13,15–16 should walk just as he walked.
7Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command # 2:7 Mk 7:8; Jn 13:34; 2Jn 5 but an old command that you have had from the beginning. The old command is the word # 2:7 Lk 6:47; Jn 1:1 you have heard. 8Yet I am writing you a new command, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away # 2:8 Rm 13:12; 1Co 7:31; 1Jn 2:17 and the true light # 2:8 Jn 1:9; 3:19–21; 8:12; 12:46 is already shining. # 2:8 Jn 1:5; 12:35–36; Rv 22:5 9The one who says he is in the light but hates his brother or sister # 2:9 1Jn 2:11; 3:15; 4:20 is in the darkness until now. 10The one who loves his brother or sister # 2:10 Rm 12:10; 1Th 4:9; Heb 13:1; 1Pt 1:22; 1Jn 3:10,14–17; 4:20–21 remains in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him. # 2:10 Or it 11But the one who hates his brother or sister # 2:11 Lv 19:17; 1Jn 3:15; 4:20 is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, # 2:11 1Jn 1:6 and doesn’t know where he’s going, # 2:11 Jn 14:6 because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
Reasons for Writing
12I am writing to you, little children,
since your sins have been forgiven
on account of his name. # 2:12 Ps 25:11; Lk 24:47; Ac 2:38; 10:43
13I am writing to you, fathers,
because you have come to know
the one who is from the beginning. # 2:13 1Jn 1:1
I am writing to you, young men,
because you have conquered the evil one. # 2:13 Jn 16:33; 17:15; Eph 6:10; 1Jn 2:14; 4:4; 5:4–5; Rv 2:7
14I have written to you, children,
because you have come to know the Father.
I have written to you, fathers,
because you have come to know
the one who is from the beginning.
I have written to you, young men,
because you are strong,
God’s word # 2:14 1Jn 1:10 remains in you,
and you have conquered the evil one.
A Warning about the World
15Do not love the world # 2:15 Jn 15:19; 17:16; Rm 12:2; Jms 1:27; 4:4 or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For everything in the world — the lust of the flesh, # 2:16 Rm 13:14; Eph 2:3; 1Pt 4:2; 2Pt 2:18 the lust of the eyes, # 2:16 Gn 3:6; Pr 27:20 and the pride # 2:16 Jms 4:16 in one’s possessions — is not from the Father, but is from the world. 17And the world with its lust is passing away, # 2:17 1Jn 2:8 but the one who does the will of God # 2:17 Mk 3:35; Eph 6:6; 1Th 4:3; 1Pt 2:15 remains forever. # 2:17 Jn 8:35; 12:34; 2Co 9:9; 1Pt 1:25
The Last Hour
18Children, it is the last hour. # 2:18 Jn 2:4; 1Pt 4:7 And as you have heard that antichrist # 2:18 Mt 24:5,24; 1Jn 2:22; 4:3; 2Jn 7 is coming, even now many antichrists have come. By this we know that it is the last hour. 19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. However, they went out so that it might be made clear that none of them belongs to us.
20But you have an anointing # 2:20 2Co 1:21 from the Holy One, # 2:20 Ps 89:18; Mk 1:24; Ac 10:38 and all of you know the truth. # 2:20 Other mss read and you know all things 21I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie comes from the truth. 22Who is the liar, if not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? # 2:22 Jn 20:31; Ac 18:5; Eph 5:2; 1Jn 5:1 This one is the antichrist: the one who denies the Father and the Son. 23No one who denies the Son has the Father; # 2:23 Jn 5:23 he who confesses the Son has the Father as well. # 2:23 Jn 8:19; 16:3; 17:3; 1Jn 4:15; 5:1; 2Jn 9
Remaining with God
24What you have heard from the beginning is to remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son # 2:24 Jn 15:4–7; 1Jn 2:6,27–28; 3:6,24; 4:13,15–16 and in the Father. # 2:24 Jn 10:38; Col 3:3; 1Th 1:1; 1Jn 4:15–16 25And this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life. # 2:25 Jn 4:14; 1Tm 4:8; 2Tm 1:1; Ti 1:2
26I have written these things to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you. 27As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need anyone to teach you. Instead, his anointing teaches you about all things # 2:27 Jn 14:26 and is true and is not a lie; just as it has taught you, # 2:27 Or as he has taught you remain in him. # 2:27 Jn 15:4–7; 1Jn 2:6; 3:6,24; 4:13,15–16
God’s Children
28So now, little children, remain in him so that when he appears # 2:28 Lk 17:30; Col 3:4; 1Jn 3:2 we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming. # 2:28 1Th 2:19 29If you know that he is righteous, you know this as well: Everyone who does what is right # 2:29 Gn 18:19; Dt 6:18; 1Jn 3:7,10 has been born of him. # 2:29 Jn 1:12–13; 3:3–7; 8:41; 1Jn 3:9; 4:7; 5:1,4,18
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1 Yochanan 2
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1My yeladim, these things I write to you so that you do not commit averos. And if anyone does commit averos, a Melitz Yosher (Advocate) we have with HaAv, Yehoshua/Yeshua, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach the Tzaddik. 2And he is the kapporah for chattoteinu, not for ours only, but also for the kol HaOlam Hazeh.#2:2 Lv 5:15; Isa 53:10 3And by this we have da'as that we have da'as of Him, if over the mitzvot of Him we are shomer. 4The one making the claim, “I have da'as of Him” and not being shomer over His mitzvot is a shakran (liar) and in this one HaEmes is not. 5But whoever over the dvar of Him is shomer, beemes in this one the ahavas Hashem has been made shleimah. By this we have da'as that in Him we are. 6The one claiming to make his maon in Him ought with the halakhah of that One so he should have his derech.#2:6 Yn 14:1,23; Ps 1:6
7Chaverim, I do not write you a mitzvah chadasha, but a mitzvah yashanah, which you were having from the beginning: the mitzvah yashanah is the dvar which you heard. 8Again a mitzvah chadasha I write to you, which is HaEmes in Him, and in you, because the choshech is making its histalkus (passing away) and the Ohr HaAmitti (the True Light) already is shining. 9The one claiming in the Ohr (Light) to be and the Ach b'Moshiach of him hating, is in the choshech still.#2:9 Lv 19:17 10The one with ahavah for the Ach b'Moshiach of him makes his maon#2:10 Yn 14:2,23 (dwelling, permanent residence) in the Ohr (Light), and a cause for michshol (stumbling, falling) is not in him.#2:10 Ps 119:165 11But the one hating the Ach b'Moshiach of him is in the choshech and walks his derech in the choshech and does not have da'as where he goes, because the choshech blinded his eyes. 12I write to you, yeladim, because your averos have been granted selicha (forgiveness) because of SHMO (His Name).#2:12 Ps 25:11 13I write to you, avot, because you have had da'as of the One Who is Bereshis; I write to you, yungelait (young people), because you have conquered the evil one. 14I wrote to you, yeladim, because you have had da'as of HaAv; I wrote to you, avot, because you have had da'as of the One Bereshis. I wrote to you, yungelait (young people), because you are chazakim (strong ones) and the Dvar Hashem makes His maon in you and you have conquered the evil one.
15Do not have ahavah for the Olam Hazeh, neither the things in the Olam Hazeh. If anyone has ahavah for the Olam Hazeh, the Ahavas [Elohim] HaAv is not in him. 16For all that is in the Olam Hazeh, the ta'avah (lust) of the basar and the ta'avah of the eyes and the gaa'vah (pride) in the chashuve (prominence) of what one has in this life, oneʼs vital possessions, all this is not of HaAv but is of the Olam Hazeh.#2:16 Gn 3:6; Prov 27:20 17And the Olam Hazeh is making its histalkus (passing away) and the ta'avah (lust) of it, but the one doing the ratzon Hashem has his maon lanetzakh (permanent dwelling place to remain for ever).
18Yeladim, it is the sha'ah ha'achronah (the last hour, time), and as you heard that Anti-Moshiach is coming, even now many Anti-Moshiachs#2:18 nevi'ei sheker, 4:1 have come, from which we have da'as that it is the sha'ah ha'achronah. 19They went out and departed from us, but they were not of us; for if they were of us, they would have abided with us; but they went out that it may be niglah (be revealed) that none of them belongs to us.#2:19 Yn 6:70; 13:30 20And you have a#2:20 Ruach Hakodesh mishcha (anointing) from HaKadosh and you have da'as of all.#2:20 Jer 31:34 21I did not write an iggeret kodesh to you because you do not have da'as of HaEmes, but because you do have da'as of HaEmes and that kol sheker (every falsehood) is not of HaEmes. 22Who is the shakran (liar)? Who but the one making hakhchashah (denial) and claiming that Yehoshua is not the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach? This one is the Anti-Moshiach, the one making hakhchashah (denial) of HaAv and HaBen. 23No one making hakhchashah of HaBen has HaAv; the one making hoda'ah (confession) of HaBen has HaAv also. 24What you heard from the beginning, in you let it make its maon. If in you makes maon what from the beginning you heard, also you will make maon in HaBen and in HaAv. 25And this is the havtachah (promise) which He promised us, Chayyei Olam.
26These things I wrote to you concerning the (nevi'ei sheker) deceiving you. 27And the mishcha (anointing) which you received from Him makes its maon in you, and you are not nitzrach (needy) that anyone should be your “moreh,” but as the same#2:27 Ruach Hakodesh mishcha (anointing) teaches you concerning everything and is Emes and is not kazav (lie, falsehood), and as He taught you, keep your maon in Him.#2:27 Jer 31:34
28And now, yeladim, remain in Him, that when He makes His hisgalus (revelation, unveiling appearance) we may have bitachon and not have bushah (shame) before Him at the Bi'as HaMoshiach. 29If you have da'as that He is tzaddik, you have da'as that also everyone who is a po'el tzedek (worker of righteousness) has been born of Him.
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