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I am writing to you, fathers, because you know
1him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because
2you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because
3you know the Father.
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I write to you, fathers, because you know
4him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because
5you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
Do Not Love the World
15 6Do not love the world or the things in the world.
7If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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For all that is in the world--
8the desires of the flesh and
9the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions--is not from the Father but is from the world.
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And
10the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
Warning Concerning Antichrists
18 Children,
11it is the last hour, and as you have heard that
12antichrist is coming, so now
13many antichrists have come.
14Therefore we know that it is the last hour.
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15They went out from us, but they were not of us; for
16if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out,
17that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
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But you have been
18anointed by
19the Holy One, and
20you all have knowledge.
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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.
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Who is the liar but
21he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is
22the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
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23No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.