The Darby Translation DBY
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13 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.
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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.
14 I have written to you, fathers, because ye have known him [that is] from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome the wicked [one].
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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.
15 Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him;
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Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.
16 because 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.
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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.
17 And the world is passing, and its lust, but he that does the will of God abides for eternity.
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The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.
18 Little children, it is [the] last hour, and, according as ye have heard that antichrist comes, even now there have come many antichrists, whence we know that it is [the] last hour.
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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.
19 They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have surely remained with us, but that they might be made manifest that none are of us.
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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.
20 And *ye* have [the] unction from the holy [one], and ye know all things.
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But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
21 I have not written to you because ye do not know the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
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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.
22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? *He* is the antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
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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.
23 Whoever denies the Son has not the Father either; he who confesses the Son has the Father also.
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No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
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