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I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
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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 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 abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
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Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.
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And the world passeth away, and the lust of it: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
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Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist cometh, even now are there many antichrists; by which we know that it is the last time.
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They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would [no doubt] have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
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But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
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I have not written to you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
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Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.