Do Not Love the World
15 1Do not love the world or the things in the world.
2If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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For all that is in the world--
3the desires of the flesh and
4the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions--is not from the Father but is from the world.
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And
5the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
Warning Concerning Antichrists
18 Children,
6it is the last hour, and as you have heard that
7antichrist is coming, so now
8many antichrists have come.
9Therefore we know that it is the last hour.
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10They went out from us, but they were not of us; for
11if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out,
12that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
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But you have been
13anointed by
14the Holy One, and
15you 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
16he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is
17the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
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18No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.
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Let
19what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then
20you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.
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And this is the promise that he made to us--
21eternal life.
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I write these things to you about
22those who are trying to deceive you.
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But
23the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and
24you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and
25is true, and is no lie--just as it has taught you, abide in him.
Children of God
28 And now, little children, abide in him, so that
26when he appears
27we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his
28coming.
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If you know that
29he is righteous, you may be sure that
30everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.