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I am writing to you, dear children, because for His sake your sins are forgiven you.
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I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has existed from the very beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.
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I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has existed from the very beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong and God's Message still has a place in your hearts, and you have overcome the Evil one.
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Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, there is no love in his heart for the Father.
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For the things in the world--the cravings of the earthly nature, the cravings of the eyes, the show and pride of life--they all come, not from the Father, but from the world.
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And the world, with its cravings, is passing away, but he who does God's will continues for ever.
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Dear children, the last hour has come; and as you once heard that there was to be an anti-Christ, so even now many anti-Christs have appeared. By this we may know that the last hour has come.
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They have gone forth from our midst, but they did not really belong to us; for had they belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they left us that it might be manifest that professed believers do not all belong to us.
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As for you, you have an anointing from the holy One and have perfect knowledge.
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I have written to you, not because you are ignorant of the truth, but because you know it, and you know that nothing false comes from the truth.
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Who is a liar compared with him who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He who disowns the Father and the Son is the anti-Christ.