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I write to you, little children, because the sins have been forgiven you through his name;
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I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who [is] from the beginning; I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil. I write to you, little youths, because ye have known the Father:
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I did write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who [is] from the beginning; I did write to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God in you doth remain, and ye have overcome the evil.
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Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
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because all that [is] in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,
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and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain -- to the age.