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1 John 2

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1 My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Yeshua the Messiah, the righteous.
1 I write this, dear children, to guide you out of sin. But if anyone does sin, we have a Priest-Friend in the presence of the Father: Jesus Christ, righteous Jesus.
2 And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
2 When he served as a sacrifice for our sins, he solved the sin problem for good - not only ours, but the whole world's.
3 This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his mitzvot.
3 Here's how we can be sure that we know God in the right way: Keep his commandments.
4 He who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his mitzvot, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
4 If someone claims, "I know him well!" but doesn't keep his commandments, he's obviously a liar. His life doesn't match his words.
5 But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most assuredly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:
5 But the one who keeps God's word is the person in whom we see God's mature love. This is the only way to be sure we're in God.
6 he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
6 Anyone who claims to be intimate with God ought to live the same kind of life Jesus lived.
7 Brothers, I write no new mitzvah to you, but an old mitzvah which you had from the beginning. The old mitzvah is the word which you heard from the beginning.
7 My dear friends, I'm not writing anything new here. This is the oldest commandment in the book, and you've known it from day one. It's always been implicit in the Message you've heard.
8 Again, I write a new mitzvah to you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.
8 On the other hand, perhaps it is new, freshly minted as it is in both Christ and you - the darkness on its way out and the True Light already blazing!
9 He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.
9 Anyone who claims to live in God's light and hates a brother or sister is still in the dark.
10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
10 It's the person who loves brother and sister who dwells in God's light and doesn't block the light from others.
11 But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
11 But whoever hates is still in the dark, stumbles around in the dark, doesn't know which end is up, blinded by the darkness.
12 I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
12 I remind you, my dear children: Your sins are forgiven in Jesus' name.
13 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.
13 You veterans were in on the ground floor, and know the One who started all this; you newcomers have won a big victory over the Evil One.
14 I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
14 You veterans know the One who started it all; and you newcomers - such vitality and strength! God's word is so steady in you. Your fellowship with God enables you to gain a victory over the Evil One.
15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.
15 Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.
16 Practically everything that goes on in the world - wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important - has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him.
17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.
17 The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out - but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.
18 Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Anti-messiah is coming, even now many anti-messiahs have arisen. By this we know that it is the end times.
18 Children, time is just about up. You heard that Antichrist is coming. Well, they're all over the place, antichrists everywhere you look. That's how we know that we're close to the end.
19 They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
19 They left us, but they were never really with us. If they had been, they would have stuck it out with us, loyal to the end. In leaving, they showed their true colors, showed they never did belong.
20 You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know the truth.
20 But you belong. The Holy One anointed you, and you all know it.
21 I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
21 I haven't been writing this to tell you something you don't know, but to confirm the truth you do know, and to remind you that the truth doesn't breed lies.
22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Yeshua is the Messiah? This is the Anti-messiah, he who denies the Father and the Son.
22 So who is lying here? It's the person who denies that Jesus is the Divine Christ, that's who. This is what makes an antichrist: denying the Father, denying the Son.
23 Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn't have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.
23 No one who denies the Son has any part with the Father, but affirming the Son is an embrace of the Father as well.
24 Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.
24 Stay with what you heard from the beginning, the original message. Let it sink into your life. If what you heard from the beginning lives deeply in you, you will live deeply in both Son and Father.
25 This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
25 This is exactly what Christ promised: eternal life, real life!
26 These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.
26 I've written to warn you about those who are trying to deceive you.
27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
27 But they're no match for what is embedded deeply within you - Christ's anointing, no less! You don't need any of their so-called teaching. Christ's anointing teaches you the truth on everything you need to know about yourself and him, uncontaminated by a single lie. Live deeply in what you were taught.
28 Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
28 And now, children, stay with Christ. Live deeply in Christ. Then we'll be ready for him when he appears, ready to receive him with open arms, with no cause for red-faced guilt or lame excuses when he arrives.
29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.
29 Once you're convinced that he is right and righteous, you'll recognize that all who practice righteousness are God's true children.
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Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.