1 John 2 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

Christ Is Our Advocate

1My little children (believers, dear ones), I am writing you these things so that you will not sin and violate God’s law. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father: Jesus Christ the righteous.

2And He is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours alone, but also for the whole world.

3And this is how we know that we have come to know Him: if we habitually keep His commandments (teachings).

4Whoever says, “I have come to know Him,” but does not habitually keep His commandments (teachings), is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

5But whoever habitually keeps His word and obeys His precepts, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:

6whoever says he lives in Christ ought to walk and conduct himself just as He walked and conducted Himself.

7Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the message which you have heard.

8On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true and realized in Christ and in you, because the darkness is clearing away and the true Light is already shining.

9The one who says he is in the Light and yet habitually hates (works against) his brother is in the darkness until now.

10The one who loves and unselfishly seeks the best for his brother lives in the Light, and in him there is no occasion for stumbling or offense.

11But the one who habitually hates (works against) his brother is in darkness and is walking in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

12I am writing to you, little children (believers, dear ones), because your sins have been forgiven for His name’s sake.

13I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has existed from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have been victorious and have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you have come to know the Father.

14I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has existed from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong and vigorous, and the word of God remains in you, and you have been victorious over the evil one.

Do Not Love the World

15Do not love the world, nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

16For all that is in the world—the lust and sensual craving of the flesh and the lust and longing of the eyes and the boastful pride of life—these do not come from the Father, but are from the world.

17The world is passing away, and with it its lusts; but the one who does the will of God and carries out His purposes lives forever.

18Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists (false teachers) have appeared, which confirms our belief that it is the last hour.

19They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be clearly shown that none of them are of us.

20But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know.

21I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

22Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed)? This is the antichrist, the one who denies and consistently refuses to acknowledge the Father and the Son.

23Whoever denies and repudiates the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses and acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

24As for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you too will remain in the Son and in the Father.

The Promise Is Eternal Life

25This is the promise which He Himself promised us—eternal life.

26These things I have written to you with reference to those who are trying to deceive you.

27As for you, the anointing which you received from Him remains in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But just as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as His anointing has taught you, you must remain in Him.

28Now, little children (believers, dear ones), remain in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed and shrink away from Him at His coming.

29If you know that He is absolutely righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.