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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 John 2 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_john/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_john/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > 1 John 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_john/1.htm" title="1 John 1">◄</a> 1 John 2 <a href="../1_john/3.htm" title="1 John 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/1_john/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Love and Hatred for Fellow Believers</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But if anyone obeys his word, love for God <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or word, God's love">a</a></sup></span> is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God's family; also in verse 11; and in 3:15, 17; 4:20; 5:16.">b</a></sup></span> is still in the darkness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Anyone who loves their brother and sister <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek word for brother and sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God's family; also in 3:10; 4:20, 21.">c</a></sup></span> lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Reasons for Writing</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I am writing to you, dear children,</p><p class="line2">because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I am writing to you, fathers,</p><p class="line2">because you know him who is from the beginning.</p><p class="line1">I am writing to you, young men,</p><p class="line2">because you have overcome the evil one.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I write to you, dear children,</p><p class="line2">because you know the Father.</p><p class="line1">I write to you, fathers,</p><p class="line2">because you know him who is from the beginning.</p><p class="line1">I write to you, young men,</p><p class="line2">because you are strong,</p><p class="line2">and the word of God lives in you,</p><p class="line2">and you have overcome the evil one.</p></div> <p class="sectionhead">On Not Loving the World</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or world, the Father's love">d</a></sup></span> is not in them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Warnings Against Denying the Son</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts and you know all things">e</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And this is what he promised us—eternal life.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="sectionhead">God’s Children and Sin</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>word, God’s love</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Greek word for <i>brother or sister</i> (<i>adelphos</i>) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family; also in verse 11; and in 3:15, 17; 4:20; 5:16.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Greek word for <i>brother and sister</i> (<i>adelphos</i>) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family; also in 3:10; 4:20, 21.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>world, the Father’s love</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some manuscripts <i>and you know all things</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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