om the beginning[2:7]. (8)Again, a new
commandment I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you;
because the darkness is passing away, and the true light now shines.
(9)He that says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in the
darkness until now. (10)He that loves his brother abides in the light,
and there is no occasion of stumbling in him. (11)But he that hates
his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and knows
not where he goes, because the darkness blinded his eyes.

(12)I write to you, little children, because your sins have been
forgiven you for his name's sake. (13)I write to you, fathers, because
ye know him that was from the beginning. I write to you, young men,
because ye have overcome the evil one.

I wrote to you, little children, because ye know the Father. (14)I
wrote to you, fathers, because ye know him that was from the
beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the
word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome the evil one.

(15)Love not the world, neither the things in the world. If any one
loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. (16)Because all
that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes,
and the empty pomp of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
(17)And the world is passing away, and the lust thereof; but he that
does the will of God abides forever.

(18)Little children, it is the last time; and as ye heard that
antichrist should come, even now many antichrists have arisen; from
whence we know that it is the last time. (19)They went out from among
us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would
have remained with us; but it was in order that they might be made
manifest, that all are not of us.

(20)And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and know all things.
(21)I wrote not to you because ye do not know the truth, but because
ye know it, and because no lie is of the truth. (22)Who is the liar,
but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist,
who denies the Father and the Son. (23)Every one that denies the Son,
the same has not the Father; he that acknowledges the Son has also the
Father.

(24)What ye heard from the beginning, let it abide in you. If what ye
heard from the beginning shall abide in you, ye also will abide in the
Son, and in the Father. (25)And this is the promise which he himself
promised to us, the life eternal.

(26)These