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I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/2-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been 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 evil one. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Do Not Love the World</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/2-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/2-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/2-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>The world is passing away, and <i>also</i> its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/2-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/2-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>They went out from us, but they were not <i>really</i> of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but <i>they went out,</i> so that it would be shown that they all are not of us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/2-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/2-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/2-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/2-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/2-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Promise Is Eternal Life</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/2-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/2-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/2-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/2-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/2-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_john/2.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />I write unto you, fathers, because ye know him who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil one. I have written unto you, little children, because ye know the Father.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_john/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him, who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/1_john/2.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, because ye have known the Father.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_john/2.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />I write unto you, fathers, because ye know him which is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil one. I have written unto you, little children, because ye know the Father.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_john/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, because ye have known the Father.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/1_john/2.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has existed from the very beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_john/2.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_john/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who is from the beginning; I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil. I write to you, little youths, because ye have known the Father:<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/youthful_strength.htm">Youthful Strength</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'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.'--1 John ii. 14. 'What am I going to be?' is the question that presses upon young people stepping out of the irresponsibilities of childhood into youth. But, unfortunately, the question is generally supposed to be answered when they have fixed upon a trade or profession. It means, rightly taken, a great deal more than that. 'What am I going to make of myself?' 'What <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/youthful_strength.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/river_and_rock.htm">River and Rock</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.'--1 John ii. 17. John has been solemnly giving a charge not to love the world, nor the things that are in it. That charge was addressed to 'children,' 'young men,' 'fathers.' Whether these designations be taken as referring to growth and maturity of Christian experience, or of natural age, they equally carry the lesson that no age and no stage is beyond the danger of being drawn away by the world's <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/river_and_rock.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/the_commandment_old_yet_new.htm">The Commandment, Old yet New</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning.... Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you.'--1 John ii. 7, 8. The simplest words may carry the deepest thoughts. Perhaps angels and little children speak very much alike. This letter, like all of John's writing, is pellucid in speech, profound in thought, clear and deep, like the abysses of mid-ocean. His terms are such as a child can understand; his sentences short <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/the_commandment_old_yet_new.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/holy_in_christ/thirtieth_day_the_unction_from.htm">Thirtieth Day. The Unction from the Holy One. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye know all things. And as for you, the anointing which ye received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any one teach you; but as His anointing teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in Him.'--1 John ii. 20, 27. In the revelation by Moses of God's Holiness and His way of making holy, the priests, and specially the high priests, were the chief expression of God's Holiness in man. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/holy_in_christ/thirtieth_day_the_unction_from.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Murray—</span><span class="citation2">Holy in Christ</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/january_the_twelfth_two_opposites.htm">January the Twelfth Two Opposites</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." --1 JOHN ii. 13-17. No man can love two opposites any more than he can walk in contrary directions at the same time. No man can at once be mean and magnanimous, chivalrous and selfish. We cannot at the same moment dress appropriately for the arctic regions and the tropics. And we cannot wear the habits of the world and the garments of salvation. When we try to do it the result is a wretched and miserable compromise. I have seen a <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/january_the_twelfth_two_opposites.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Jowett—</span><span class="citation2">My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_113_the_difference_between.htm">The Difference Between Walking by Sight, and Walking by Faith</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"We walk by faith, not by sight." 2 Cor. 5:7. 1. How short is this description of real Christians! And yet how exceeding full! It comprehends, it sums up, the whole experience of those that are truly such, from the time they are born of God till they remove into Abraham's bosom. For, who are the we that are here spoken of? All that are true Christian believers. I say Christian, not Jewish, believers. All that are not only servants, but children, of God. All that have "the Spirit of adoption, crying <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_113_the_difference_between.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Wesley—</span><span class="citation2">Sermons on Several Occasions</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_10_the_witness_of.htm">The Witness of the Spirit</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Discourse I "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God." Rom. 8:16 1. How many vain men, not understanding what they spake, neither whereof they affirmed, have wrested this Scripture to the great loss if not the destruction of their souls! How many have mistaken the voice of their own imagination for this witness of the Spirit of God, and thence idly presumed they were the children of God while they were doing the works of the devil! These are truly and properly <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_10_the_witness_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Wesley—</span><span class="citation2">Sermons on Several Occasions</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_10_1864/a_bundle_of_myrrh.htm">A Bundle of Myrrh</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Concerning our text, let us talk very simply, remarking first, that Christ is very precious to believers; secondly, that there is good reason why he should be; thirdly, that mingled with this sense of preciousness, there is a joyous consciousness of possession of him; and that therefore, fourthly, there is an earnest desire for perpetual fellowship with him. If you look at the text again, you will see all these matters in it. I. First, then, CHRIST JESUS IS UNUTTERABLY PRECIOUS TO BELIEVERS. The <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_10_1864/a_bundle_of_myrrh.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 10: 1864</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_29_1883/in_him_like_him.htm">In Him: Like Him</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Rock of ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee." We have entered into Christ as into the shadow of a great rock in a weary land, as guest; into a banquet-hall, as returning travellers into their home. And now we abide--in Christ in this sense, that we are joined to him : as the stone is, in the wall, as the wave is in the sea, as the branch is in the vine, so are we in Christ. As the branch receives all its sap from the stem, so all the sap of spiritual life flows from Christ into us. If <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_29_1883/in_him_like_him.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 29: 1883</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/lecture_ix_what_god_is.htm">What God is to Us. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Exod. xxxiv. 6, 7.--"The lord, the Lord God merciful and gracious, long suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands." There is nothing can separate between God and a people but iniquity, and yet he is very loath to separate even for that. He makes many shows of departing, that so we may hold him fast, and indeed he is not difficult to be holden. He threatens often to remove his presence from a person or nation, and he threatens, that he may not indeed remove, but that <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/lecture_ix_what_god_is.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kleiser/the_worlds_great_sermons_volume_8/brooks__the_pride_of.htm">Brooks -- the Pride of Life</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Phillips Brooks was born at Boston, Mass., in 1835, graduated at Harvard in 1855 and studied theology at the P.E. Seminary, Alexandria, Va. He was elected rector of the Church of the Advent, Philadelphia, in 1859, and three years later to that of Holy Trinity in the same city. In 1869 he became rector of Trinity Church, Boston, and was consecrated Bishop of Massachusetts in 1891. He died in 1893. He was in every sense a large man, large in simplicity and sympathy, large in spiritual culture. In his <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kleiser/the_worlds_great_sermons_volume_8/brooks__the_pride_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Grenville Kleiser—</span><span class="citation2">The world's great sermons, Volume 8</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_john/2-13.htm">1 John 2:13 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_john/2-13.htm">1 John 2:13 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_john/2-13.htm">1 John 2:13 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_john/2-13.htm">1 John 2:13 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_john/2-13.htm">1 John 2:13 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/1_john/2-13.htm">1 John 2:13 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/1_john/2-13.htm">1 John 2:13 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_john/2-12.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 John 2:12"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 John 2:12" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_john/2-14.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 John 2:14"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 John 2:14" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/1_john/2-13.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>