First John
Chapter 2
The Easy Read Bible

1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you might not sin.  And if anyone sin, we have a defender close to the Father, Jesus the Messiah, who is right.

2 He is also a payment for our sins and not for ours only, but also for the whole world's.

3 The way we know that we have known Him is if we keep His commands.

4 He who says, "I have known him," and does not keep his commands is a liar.  The truth is not in this.

5 Now whoever keeps His message, definitely in this God's love has been accomplished.  In this we know that we are in Him.

6 He that says he stays in Him also ought to walk himself just as He walked.

7 Brothers and sisters, I do not write a new command to you but an old command that you have had from the beginning.  The old command is the message that you heard from the beginning.

8 On the other hand, I am writing a new command to you, which is true of Him and of you because the darkness is leaving and the true light already shines.

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

10 He that loves his brother stays in the light and is not offended by him.
	is not offended by him - literally, an offense is not in him.

11 Now he that hates his brother is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not realize where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

12 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through his name.

13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known him from the beginning.  I am writing to you, young men, because you have prevailed against the evil one.  I wrote to you, children, because you have known the Father.

14 I wrote to you, fathers, because you have known him from the beginning.  I wrote to you, young men, because you are strong, God's message stays in you, and you have prevailed against the evil one.

15 Do not love the world or the things in the world.  If anyone loves the world, the Father's love is not in him

16 because everything in the world (the desire of the physical body, the desire of the eyes, and the bragging of possessions) is not from the Father but is from the world.

17 The world and its desire are passing by.  But the one doing God's preference stays forever.

18 Children, it is the last hour.  Just as you heard that the one that is against the Messiah is coming and many that are against the Messiah have come on the scene, from this we know that it is the last hour.

19 They went out from us, but they were not from us because if they had been from us, they would have stayed with us.  But this happened that they might be shown that all of them are not from us.

20 You have an annointing from the Sacred One and you have seen all things.

21 I did not write to you because you have not seen the truth but because you have seen it and because every lie is not from the truth.

22 Who is the liar if not the one rejecting that Jesus is the Messiah?  This one that rejects the Father and the Son is the one that is against the Messiah.

23 Whoever rejects the Son does not have the Father either.  The one admitting that the Son is the Messiah also has the Father.

24 So, as for you, let the thing, that you heard from the beginning, stay in you.  If that which you heard from the beginning stays in you, you also will stay in the Son and in the Father.

25 This is the promise that he promised us, eternal life.

26 I wrote these things to you concerning those that sidetrack you.

27 And, as for you, the annointing that you received from Him stays in you and you have no need that anyone teach you.  But since the same annointing teaches you concerning all things, it is truth, it is not a lie, and you will stay in Him (just as it taught you).

28 Now, little children, stay in Him that if He is shown, we may be open and not be ashamed having to back away from Him in His presence.

29 If you have seen that He does what is right, you know that everyone that does what is right has been born from Him.

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