benwisdom

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him, neither knows him.

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.

This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.

I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.

Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

But whoever keeps his word, God’s love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.

But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,

that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

(for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):

and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.