1 John 2 - Stay Put
You've got 1000 places to go and things to do, but through it all you must 'abide in Him.'
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1 John 2 (ESV)
1 My little children,
I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.
But if anyone does sin,
we have an advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ
the righteous.
2 He is the propitiation for our sins,
and not for ours only
but also for the sins of the whole world.
3 And by this we know that we have come to know him,
if we keep his commandments.
4 Whoever
says “I know him”
but does not keep his commandments
is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
5 but whoever
keeps his word,
in him truly the love of God is perfected.
By this we may know that we are in him:
6 whoever says he abides in him
ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment,
but an old commandment that you had from the beginning.
The old commandment is the word that you have heard.
8 At the same time,
it is a new commandment that I am writing to you,
which is true in him and in you,
because the darkness is passing away
and the true light is already shining.
9 Whoever
says he is in the light
and hates his brother
is still in darkness.
10 Whoever
loves his brother abides in the light,
and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
11 But whoever
hates his brother
is
in the darkness
and walks in the darkness,
and does not know where he is going,
because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
12 I am writing to you, little children,
because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake.
13 I am writing to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
I am writing to you, young men,
because you have overcome the evil one.
I write to you, children,
because you know the Father.
14 I write to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young men,
because you are strong,
and the word of God abides in you,
and you have overcome the evil 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 desires of the flesh
and the desires of the eyes
and pride of life—
is
not from the Father
but is from the world.
17 And the world
is passing away
along with its desires,
but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
18 Children,
it is the last hour,
and as you have heard
that antichrist is coming,
so now many antichrists have come.
Therefore 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 it might become plain that they all are not of us.
20 But you
have been anointed by the Holy One,
and you all have knowledge.
21 I write to you,
not because you do not know the truth,
but
because you know it,
and because no lie is of the truth.
22 Who is the liar
but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ?
This
is the antichrist,
he who denies the Father and the Son.