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But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father--Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-1.htm">1</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-1.htm">1</a>My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-1.htm">1</a>My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-1.htm">1</a>My little children, I am writing you these things so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father--Jesus Christ the Righteous One.</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-2.htm">2</a>He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-2.htm">2</a>He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-2.htm">2</a>and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-2.htm">2</a>And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-2.htm">2</a>He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-3.htm">3</a>We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-3.htm">3</a>And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-3.htm">3</a>By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-3.htm">3</a>And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-3.htm">3</a>This is how we are sure that we have come to know Him: by keeping His commands.</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-4.htm">4</a>Whoever says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-4.htm">4</a>Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-4.htm">4</a>The one who says, "I have come to know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-4.htm">4</a>He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-4.htm">4</a>The one who says, "I have come to know Him," yet doesn't keep His commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-5.htm">5</a>But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-5.htm">5</a>but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-5.htm">5</a>but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-5.htm">5</a>But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-5.htm">5</a>But whoever keeps His word, truly in him the love of God is perfected. This is how we know we are in Him:</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-6.htm">6</a>Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-6.htm">6</a>whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-6.htm">6</a>the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-6.htm">6</a>He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-6.htm">6</a>The one who says he remains in Him should walk just as He walked. </td></tr></table> A New Command<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-7.htm">7</a>Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-7.htm">7</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-7.htm">7</a>Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-7.htm">7</a>Brethren, 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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-7.htm">7</a>Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old command that you have had from the beginning. The old command is the message you have heard. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-8.htm">8</a>Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-8.htm">8</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-8.htm">8</a>On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-8.htm">8</a>Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-8.htm">8</a>Yet I am writing you a new command, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-9.htm">9</a>Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-9.htm">9</a>Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-9.htm">9</a>The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-9.htm">9</a>He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-9.htm">9</a>The one who says he is in the light but hates his brother is in the darkness until now. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-10.htm">10</a>Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-10.htm">10</a>Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-10.htm">10</a>The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-10.htm">10</a>He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-10.htm">10</a>The one who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-11.htm">11</a>But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-11.htm">11</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-11.htm">11</a>But the one who 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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-11.htm">11</a>But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-11.htm">11</a>But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he's going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-12.htm">12</a>I am writing to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-12.htm">12</a>I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-12.htm">12</a>I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name's sake.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-12.htm">12</a>I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-12.htm">12</a>I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven because of Jesus' name. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-13.htm">13</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-13.htm">13</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-13.htm">13</a>I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the 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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-13.htm">13</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-13.htm">13</a>I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know the One who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have had victory over the evil one. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-14.htm">14</a>I write to you, dear children, because you know the Father. 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 lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-14.htm">14</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-14.htm">14</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-14.htm">14</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-14.htm">14</a>I 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 remains in you, and you have had victory over the evil one. </td></tr></table> Do Not Love the World<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-15.htm">15</a>Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-15.htm">15</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-15.htm">15</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-15.htm">15</a>Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-15.htm">15</a>Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-16.htm">16</a>For everything in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--comes not from the Father but from the world.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-16.htm">16</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-16.htm">16</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-16.htm">16</a>For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-16.htm">16</a>For everything that belongs to the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one's lifestyle--is not from the Father, but is from the world. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-17.htm">17</a>The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-17.htm">17</a>And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-17.htm">17</a>The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-17.htm">17</a>And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-17.htm">17</a>And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does God's will remains forever. </td></tr></table> Beware of Antichrists<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-18.htm">18</a>Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-18.htm">18</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-18.htm">18</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-18.htm">18</a>Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-18.htm">18</a>Children, it is the last hour. And as you have heard, "Antichrist is coming," even now many antichrists have come. We know from this that it is the last hour. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-19.htm">19</a>They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-19.htm">19</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-19.htm">19</a>They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-19.htm">19</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-19.htm">19</a>They 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. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-20.htm">20</a>But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-20.htm">20</a>But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-20.htm">20</a>But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-20.htm">20</a>But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-20.htm">20</a>But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you have knowledge.</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-21.htm">21</a>I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-21.htm">21</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-21.htm">21</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-21.htm">21</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-21.htm">21</a>I 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. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-22.htm">22</a>Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist--denying the Father and the Son.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-22.htm">22</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-22.htm">22</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-22.htm">22</a>Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-22.htm">22</a>Who is the liar, if not the one who denies that Jesus is the Messiah? This one is the antichrist: the one who denies the Father and the Son. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-23.htm">23</a>No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-23.htm">23</a>No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-23.htm">23</a>Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-23.htm">23</a>Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-23.htm">23</a>No one who denies the Son can have the Father; he who confesses the Son has the Father as well. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-24.htm">24</a>As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-24.htm">24</a>Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-24.htm">24</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-24.htm">24</a>Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-24.htm">24</a>What you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-25.htm">25</a>And this is what he promised us--eternal life.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-25.htm">25</a>And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-25.htm">25</a>This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-25.htm">25</a>And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-25.htm">25</a>And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-26.htm">26</a>I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-26.htm">26</a>I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-26.htm">26</a>These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-26.htm">26</a>These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-26.htm">26</a>I have written these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-27.htm">27</a>As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit--just as it has taught you, remain in him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-27.htm">27</a>But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-27.htm">27</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-27.htm">27</a>But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-27.htm">27</a>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 and is true and is not a lie; just as He has taught you, remain in Him. </td></tr></table> Continue in Him<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/1_john/2.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-28.htm">28</a>And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-28.htm">28</a>And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-28.htm">28</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-28.htm">28</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-28.htm">28</a>So now, little children, remain in Him, so that when He appears we may have boldness and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-29.htm">29</a>If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-29.htm">29</a>If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-29.htm">29</a>If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-29.htm">29</a>If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/1_john/2-29.htm">29</a>If you know that He is righteous, you know this as well: Everyone who does what is right has been born of Him.</td></tr></table><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"> THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com" target="_top">Biblica®</a>. 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