Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech: 1 John | Page 2

sake your sins are forgiven you. 002:013 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. 002:014 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. 002:015 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. 002:016 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. 002:017 And the world, with its cravings, is passing away, but he who does God's will continues for ever. 002:018 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. 002:019 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. 002:020 As for you, you have an anointing from the holy One and have perfect knowledge. 002:021 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. 002:022 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. 002:023 No one who disowns the Son has the Father. He who acknowledges the Son has also the Father. 002:024 As for you, let the teaching which you have received from the very beginning continue in your hearts. If that teaching does continue in your hearts, you also will continue to be in union with the Son and with the Father. 002:025 And this is the promise which He Himself has given us-- the Life of the Ages. 002:026 I have thus written to you concerning those who are leading you astray. 002:027 And as for you, the anointing which you received from Him remains within you, and there is no need for any one to teach you. But since His anointing gives you instruction in all things-- and is true and is no falsehood--you are continuing in union with Him even as it has taught you to do. 002:028 And now, dear children, continue in union with Him; so that, if He re-appears, we may have perfect confidence, and may not shrink away in shame from His presence at His Coming. 002:029 Since you know that He is righteous, be assured also that the man who habitually acts righteously is a child of His. 003:001 See what marvellous love the Father has bestowed upon us-- that we should be called God's children: and that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us--because it has not known Him. 003:002 Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we are to be in the future has not yet been fully revealed. We know that if Christ reappears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is. 003:003 And every man who has this hope fixed on Him, purifies himself so as to be as pure as He is. 003:004 Every one who is guilty of sin is also guilty of violating Law; for sin is the violation of Law. 003:005 And you know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. 003:006 No one who continues in union with Him lives in sin: no one who lives in sin has seen Him or knows Him. 003:007 Dear children, let no one lead you astray. The man who acts righteously is righteous, just as He is righteous. 003:008 He who is habitually guilty of sin is a child of the Devil, because the Devil has been a sinner from the very beginning. The Son of God appeared for the purpose of undoing the work of the Devil. 003:009 No one who is a child of God is habitually guilty of sin. A God-given germ of life remains in him, and he cannot habitually sin--because he is a child of God. 003:010 By this