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16 For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this 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 this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.
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The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.
18 Dear children, the last hour is here. You have heard that the Antichrist is coming, and already many such antichrists have appeared. From this we know that the last hour has come.
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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 These people left our churches, but they never really belonged with us; otherwise they would have stayed with us. When they left, it proved that they did not belong with 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 But you are not like that, for the Holy One has given you his Spirit, and all of you know the truth.
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But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
21 So I am writing to you not because you don’t know the truth but because you know the difference between truth and lies.
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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 And who is a liar? Anyone who says that Jesus is not the Christ. Anyone who denies the Father and the Son is an antichrist.
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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 Anyone who denies the Son doesn’t have the Father, either. But anyone who acknowledges 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.
24 So you must remain faithful to what you have been taught from the beginning. If you do, you will remain in fellowship with the Son and with the Father.
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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.
25 And in this fellowship we enjoy the eternal life he promised us.
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And this is what he promised us—eternal life.
26 I am writing these things to warn you about those who want to lead you astray.
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I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray.
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