Chapter 2
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2: • 1 My little children, I am writing these things to you, that you might not disconnect from God [g], and if anyone should sin in disconnecting from God, we have One close to us, always connecting us with the Father [and Father with us], Jesus Christ, the Justly Innocent One. • 2 And He is the propitiation and resolution [the Mercy Seat], encompassing and rendering inoperative our sins and disconnection from God; but not encompassing ours only, but also encompassing the sins of the entire world-cosmos (h). 3 And in this we know that we have come to know Him, if we should keep, watch over, and guard His commandments [inside of His full completion]. 4 The one who says, “I have known Him,” and is not keeping, watching over, and guarding His commandments [inside of His full completion], is a liar, and the truth is not inside of him. • 5 The one who keeps, guards, and watches over His word, however, truly the love of God inside of him has already been completed. Inside of this [rest in completion], we know that we are inside of Him. • 6 The one who says, “I live and remain inside of Him,” is committed to walk in exactly the same way He Himself walked [i). 7 Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old [and familiar] commandment, which you have heard from the start. This familiar commandment is the word [of the gospel] that you have heard. 8 But again, I am writing a new commandment [living inside of completion] to you, which is true inside of Him and inside of you, because the darkness is departing, and the true light already shines visibly. 9 The one who says, “I am inside of the light,” but contemptuously despises his brother or sister, is inside of the darkness [of dishonesty] even until now. • 10 The one who loves his brother, lives and remains inside of the light and there is no means of stumbling [no ability to disconnect from God] inside of him. 11 The one, however, who contemptuously despises his brother is inside of the darkness [of dishonesty], and walks inside the darkness; and he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes (j). 12 I write to you, little children, because your sins and disconnection from God have been removed through His name, through the character of His person. 13 I write to you fathers, because you have known Him who is from the Source (k). I write to you, young men, because you have already overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father. 14 I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the Source [or beginning}. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives and remains inside of you, and you have overcome the evil one. • 15 Do not love the present world-cosmos [l], nor the things in the world-cosmos. If anyone should love the world, the love of the Father is not inside of him. • 16 Because all that is in the world, the desire and passionate longing of the flesh, and the desire and passionate longing of the eyes, and the boastful ostentation of biological life, is not out from the Father, but is out from the present world, • 17 and the present world-cosmos is temporary with all its desires, but the one who does the desire of God lives and remains into the age. • 18 Little children, it is the final and furthest hour, and as you have heard that anti-Christ (m) is coming, even now many anti-Christs have become, whereby we know that it is the final hour. 19 These [many anti-Christs] went out from among us, but they were not really from among us. For if they had been from among us, they would have remained with us. Rather, that it might be made visible to all that these [anti-Christs] are not part of us. • 20 And you have the Anointing that comes from Devotion, and you perceive all. 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know the truth, and [you know] that all lying [all fakery and false speaking] is not out from the truth. • 22 Who is the liar, but the one speaking against and contradicting, that Jesus is not the Christ? This is that which is anti-Christ, the one speaking against, contradicting the Father and the Son. 23 Anyone speaking contrary to the Son, does not have the Father. • The one who speaks the same word with the Son, also possesses the Father. 24 Allow what you have heard from the start to live and remain inside of you. If you should live and remain inside of what you have heard from the start, you are dwelling inside of the Son and inside of the Father. 25 And this is the promise that He has promised us: the life that unfolds the ages. 26 These things I have written to you concerning those taking you off course. • 27 The Anointing that you have received from Him lives and remains inside of you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you; but as the same Anointing teaches you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie; and just as [the Anointing from Devotion] has taught you, so you are dwelling inside of Him. • 28 And now, little children, live and remain inside of Him, so that if He becomes visible [to us] we might speak boldly with all freedom, and not be ashamed as away from Him, for we are already inside of His presence here and now. • 29 If you know that He is justly innocent, then you know also that everyone doing justice without hurt is conceived out from Him. |
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