11:1PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect strangers of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied to you.
21:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy has begotten us to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,1:4to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, kept in heaven for you1:5who are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.1:6In which you rejoice, though now for a little while if need be made sad by manifold trials,1:7that the trial of your faith, which is much more precious than gold that is destroyed but proved by fire, may be found to praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ,1:8whom not having seen you love, in whom believing though now you see him not you rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorious,1:9receiving the end of the faith, the salvation of souls.1:10Concerning which salvation the prophets also who prophesied concerning the grace [bestowed] on us inquired diligently and sought,1:11inquiring as to what person or what time the Spirit of Christ which was in them signified, when it declared before the sufferings of Christ and after these the glories,1:12to whom it was revealed that they ministered not to themselves but to us those things which have now been declared to you by those who preached to you the good news, with the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, into which the angels desire to look.
31:13Wherefore, girding up the loins of your minds, be sober, and hope to the end for the gift to be brought to you by the revelation of Jesus Christ.1:14As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires of your former ignorance,1:15but as he that called you is holy be you also holy in all [your] conduct,1:16because it is written, Be you holy, for I am holy.1:17And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each one's work, spend the time of your life with fear,1:18knowing that you were not redeemed from your vain mode of life received by tradition from your fathers, with destructible things, silver or gold,1:19but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish, and without a spot;1:20who was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but made manifest in these last times for you,1:21who through him believed in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope may be in God.
41:22Having purified your souls by obeying the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another fervently, from the heart,1:23having been born again, not from destructible seed but from indestructible, through the word of God which lives and endures.1:24For all flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass has withered, and its flower fell off;1:25but the word of the Lord continues forever. And this is the word preached to you.
52:1Laying aside therefore all malice and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speakings,2:2as new born babes desire earnestly the pure milk of the word, that you may grow by it to salvation,2:3if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.2:4To whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed by men but approved by God, elect, precious,2:5do you also yourselves be built up living stones, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices well pleasing to God through Jesus Christ,2:6for it is said in the Scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious, and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.2:7To you therefore who believe he is precious; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the head of a corner2:8and a stone of stumbling and rock of offense, who stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.2:9But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should declare the virtues of him who called you out of darkness into his glorious light;2:10who formerly were not a people, but now are a people of God, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
12:11BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,2:12having your conduct honorable among the gentiles, that wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, from the good works which they see they may glorify God in the day of visitation.
22:13Be subject therefore to every human government, for the Lord's sake, whether to the king, as superior,2:14to governors, sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and the praise of those who do well;2:15for this is the will of God, that by well-doing you may silence the ignorance of foolish men;2:16as free, and not using freedom for a cloak of vice, but as servants of God.2:17Honor all men, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.
32:18Let servants be subject with all fear to masters, not only to the good and gentle but also to the perverse.2:19For this deserves thanks, if on account of a knowledge of God one endures pain, suffering unjustly.2:20For what glory is it if when you sin and are punished you bear it patiently? But if you do well and suffer and bear it patiently, [this deserves thanks], for it is acceptable to God.2:21For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you a copy that you should follow his steps,2:22who committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth,2:23who being reviled reviled not, suffering threatened not, but committed himself to him that judges righteously,2:24who himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, that we having died to sins, may live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.2:25For you were like lost sheep, but are now returned to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.
43:1In like manner let the women be subject to their husbands, that even if some disobey the word, they may be gained through the conduct of their wives without the word,3:2seeing your pure mode of life in the fear [of God].3:3Whose ornament let it not be the external [ornament] of braided hair and the putting on of chains of gold or of clothing,3:4but let the hidden man of the heart be adorned with the imperishable [ornaments] of a meek and quiet spirit, which are of great price before God.3:5For so formerly also the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves, being subject to their husbands,3:6as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose children you are, doing good and having no fear.3:7In like manner let the husbands [do], living together in knowledge with the wife as with a vessel of less strength, deeming them precious, co-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
53:8Finally, be all of one mind, sympathising, loving as brothers, compassionate, humble,3:9not returning evil for evil or railing for railing, but on the contrary blessing [your enemies], because to this you are called, that you may inherit blessing.3:10For he that will love life and see good days, let him withhold his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit,3:11let him abstain from evil and do good, let him seek peace and pursue it,3:12for the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears attend to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
63:13And who is he that will injure you if you are followers of what is good?3:14But even if you suffer on account of righteousness, you are blessed. But fear not with their fear, neither be troubled;3:15and sanctify the anointed Lord in your hearts, and be always ready with a defense to every one that asks you a reason for the hope that is in you; but with meekness and fear,3:16having a good conscience, that in what they speak evil of you they may be ashamed who slander your good conduct in Christ.3:17For it is better to suffer doing good, if the will of God allows, than doing evil.3:18For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might lead us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,3:19in which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison,3:20who were formerly disobedient when the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is eight souls, were saved by water.3:21The archetype of which, baptism, also now saves us, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience in God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,3:22who is on the right hand of God, having gone to heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
74:1Christ therefore having suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,4:2that you may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.4:3For the time past is sufficient for us to have performed the will of the gentiles, walking in lewdness, inordinate desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings and unlawful idolatries,4:4in which they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excessive intemperance, blaspheming,4:5who shall give an account to him that is ready to judge the living and dead.4:6And for this cause was the gospel preached also to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit.
84:7But the end of all things is at hand. Be sober therefore, and watch in prayers;4:8above all things have fervent love one for another, for love hides a multitude of sins.4:9Be hospitable one to another, without complaining;4:10as each has received a gift, minister the same among yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.4:11If any one speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God, if any one serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the power for ever and ever; amen.
14:12BELOVED, think not strange of the fiery trial which is to try you, as if some strange thing happened to you,4:13but as you partake of the sufferings of Christ rejoice, that you may also rejoice exulting at the revelation of his glory.4:14If you are reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.4:15But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or as a meddler in other men's affairs;4:16but as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, let him glorify God on this account.4:17For it is time for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it first begins with us, what will the end be of those that obey not the gospel of God?4:18And if the righteous man is scarcely saved, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?4:19Let those therefore who suffer by the will of God, commit their souls to him in well doing as a faithful creator.
25:1The elders among you I exhort, who am a co-elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed;5:2feed the flock of God which is among you, not by constraint but willingly, not for base gain but of a ready mind,5:3not as having a lordship over God's inheritance but being examples to the flock;5:4and when the chief shepherd shall appear, you shall receive an unfading crown of glory.
35:5Let the younger in like manner be subject to the elder, and do you all be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility; for God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.5:6Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;5:7casting all your care upon him, for he cares for you.
45:8Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour;5:9whom resist, firm in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished by your brothers in the world.5:10And may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when you have suffered a little while, himself make you perfect, confirm, strengthen, establish you.5:11To him be the glory and the power for ever; amen.
55:12I have written to you in a few words by Silvanus [Silas], a faithful brother as I suppose, exhorting you, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.5:13The co-elect [church] at Babylon salutes you, and Mark my son.5:14Salute one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all in Christ.
11:1SIMEON Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.1:2Grace and peace be multiplied to you by a knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
21:3As his divine power has given us all things which pertain to life and piety, through the knowledge of him that has called us to his own glory and virtue,1:4through which have been given us very great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption which is in the world by inordinate desire,1:5and for the same purpose also, giving all diligence add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge,1:6and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience piety,1:7and to piety brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.1:8For if these are in you and abound, they will make you not inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;1:9for a man that is without these is blind, not seeing to a distance, and has forgotten the purification from his former errors.1:10Wherefore, brothers, use the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things you shall never fall.1:11For thus shall you have an abundant entrance given you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
31:12Wherefore I will not neglect always to remind you of these things, although you have known them, and have been established in the present truth.1:13I think it right as long as I am in this tabernacle, to excite you by remembrance,1:14knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is at hand, as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me.1:15But I will also be diligent and especially that you may be able to make mention of these things after my departure.1:16For we did not follow skilfully constructed myths in making known to you the power and appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye witnesses of his majesty.1:17For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when this voice was brought to him from the magnificent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.1:18And this voice we heard brought from heaven when we were with him on the holy mount.1:19And we have the more sure prophetic word, to which you will do well to attend, as to a light shining in a dark place, till the day dawns and the day-star arises in your hearts,1:20knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of its own solution.1:21For prophecy was never brought by the will of man, but moved by the Holy Spirit men spoke from God.
42:1But there were also false prophets among the people, as there shall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth destructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction;2:2and many shall follow their lewdness, on account of whom the way of truth shall be reviled,2:3and with covetousness they will make a gain of you with feigned words, whose judgment a long time lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.2:4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but plunging them into Tartarus delivered them up in chains to be kept in darkness till the judgment,2:5and spared not the old world, but preserved Noah a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, bringing the flood on the world of the ungodly,2:6and condemned Sodom and Gomorrah to be overthrown, reducing them to ashes, making them an example to those who should afterwards be wicked,2:7and delivered righteous Lot, vexed by the lewd conduct of the wicked;—2:8for that righteous man living among them vexed his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their wicked deeds;—2:9the Lord knows how to deliver the pious from trial, and to keep the wicked to the day of judgment to be punished,2:10but especially those who walk after the flesh, in corrupt desires, and despise government. Presumptuous, self-complacent, they fear not to revile glories,2:11where the angels who are greater in strength and power do not bring against them a reproachful judgment;2:12but these, like irrational animals, brutes made to be taken and destroyed, reviling things which they do not understand, will also be destroyed in their depravity,2:13receiving the wages of wickedness, accounting luxury in the day-time a pleasure, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceptions while feasting with you,2:14having eyes full of an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, cursed children,2:15having left the right way they have gone astray, following in the way of Balaam the son of Beor who loved the wages of wickedness,2:16but had a rebuke of his transgression; the dumb ass, speaking with a man's voice, forbade the madness of the prophet.
52:17These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, to which is reserved the blackness of darkness.2:18For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error,2:19promising them liberty, when they themselves are servants of corruption; for by whatever a man is overcome, to this is he made a servant.2:20For if having escaped the defilements of the world by a knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome by them, the last state of those persons is worse than the first.2:21For it is better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, having known, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.2:22But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog returned to his vomit, and the swine that was washed to wallowing in filth.
13:1THIS second epistle, beloved, I now write to you, in which I excite your pure minds by remembrance,3:2to remember the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour,3:3knowing this first, that in the last days scoffers shall come with scoffing walking after their inordinate desires,3:4and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the world.3:5For of this they are willingly ignorant, that the heavens were of old, and the earth was made of water and by water by the word of God,3:6by which the world that then was, being overflowed with water, was destroyed.3:7But the present heavens and the earth have been preserved by his word, being kept for fire, at the day of the judgment and destruction of wicked men.
23:8But let not this one thing escape you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.3:9The Lord is not slow in respect to his promise, as some men account slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to a change of mind.
33:10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with a crash, and the elements be melted with heat, and the earth and the works in it be consumed.3:11All these things therefore being dissolved, what persons ought we to be in holy conduct and piety,3:12expecting and hastening the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens being burnt up will be dissolved and the elements be melted with heat.3:13But we, according to his promise, look for a new heaven and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.
43:14Wherefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent that you may be found in him without a spot and blemish, in peace,3:15and consider the long-suffering of the Lord our salvation; as also our beloved brother Paul according to the wisdom given to him wrote to you,3:16as also in all his epistles speaking of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest as they also do the other Scriptures to their destruction.3:17Do you therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] before, be on your guard not to be carried away with the error of the wicked and fall from your steadfastness,3:18but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever.
11:1JUDAS, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the beloved in God the Father, and the called who are kept by Jesus Christ.1:2Mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.
21:3Beloved, giving all diligence to write to you concerning the common salvation, I was under a necessity to write and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.1:4For some men have come in by deception, who were of old appointed to this judgment, impious, changing the grace of our God into lewdness, and denying our only master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
31:5But I wish to remind you, though you once knew all, that the Lord having saved his people from Egypt, afterwards destroyed those that believed not,1:6and the angels who kept not their own province, but left their habitation, he has kept under darkness in eternal chains, for the judgment of the great day;1:7as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, committing fornication in the same manner as these and going after unnatural lewdness, are made an example, enduring the punishment of eternal fire.
41:8In like manner also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject government, and blaspheme glories.1:9But Michael the arch-angel, when disputing with the devil he reasoned about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a charge of blasphemy, but said, The Lord rebuke you.1:10But these blaspheme what they do not understand, and what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.1:11Woe to them; for they have gone in the way of Cain, and rushed into the error of Balaam for a reward, and perished in the contradiction of Korah.1:12These are breakers at your love-feasts, feasting with you without fear, feeding themselves, clouds without water driven about by winds, autumnal trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots,1:13wild waves of the sea foaming with their own shame, wandering stars to which is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
51:14And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of them, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousand of his saints1:15to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the wicked among them of all the deeds of impiety which they have impiously committed, and of all the hard speeches which impious sinners have spoken against him.1:16These are complainers, censorious, walking after their inordinate desires, and their mouth speaks proud words, showing admiration of persons for the sake of gain.
61:17But do you, beloved, remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,1:18that they said to you, That in the last time there shall be scoffers, walking in their own impious desires.1:19These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.1:20But you, beloved, build yourselves up in your most holy faith, pray with the Holy Spirit.1:21Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.1:22And reprove some, separatists,1:23and some save, plucking them from the fire, but have mercy on others with fear, hating even the garment that is defiled by the flesh.
71:24And to him that is able to keep you without falling, and to present you blameless before his glory, with great joy,1:25to God our only Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power and authority before all worlds, both now and for ever more; amen.
11:1THAT which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld and our hands felt, concerning the Word of life,—1:2and the life was made manifest, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us,—1:3that which we have seen and heard, we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.1:4And these things we write to you, that your joy may be complete.
21:5And this is the message which we have heard from him and declare to you, That God is light, and with him there is no darkness.1:6If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie and observe not the truth;1:7but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.1:8If we say we have not sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins, and to cleanse us from all wickedness.1:10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
32:1My little children, these things I write to you that you may not sin. But if any one has sinned, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous,2:2and he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but for all the world.2:3And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.2:4He that says, I have known him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;2:5but whoever keeps his word, in him truly is the love of God perfected. By this we know that we are in him.2:6He that says he continues in him, ought also himself so to walk as he walked.
42:7Beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which you had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you heard.2:8Again, a new commandment I write you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is past and the true light now appears.2:9He that says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness till now.2:10He that loves his brother continues in the light, and there is no offense in him;2:11but he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
52:12I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven on account of his name.2:13I write to you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I wrote to you, little children, because you have known the Father.2:14I wrote to you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God continues in you, and you have overcome the evil one.2:15Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;2:16for all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.2:17And the world passes away, and its desires; but he that does the will of God continues for ever.
62:18Little children, it is the last time; and as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many have become anti-christs; whence we know that it is the last time.2:19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us they would have continued with us; but [they went out from us] that they might be manifest that they are not all of us.2:20And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and know all things.2:21I have not written to you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.2:22Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the anti-christ, [the man that] denies the Father and the Son.2:23No one that denies the Son has the Father; he that confesses the Son has the Father also.2:24Let that which you heard from the beginning continue in you. If that which you heard from the beginning continues in you, you also shall continue in the Son and in the Father.2:25And this is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
72:26I have written these things to you concerning those who deceive you.2:27And the anointing which you received from him continues in you, and you have no need that any one should teach you; but as his anointing teaches you of all things, and is true and is not a lie, even as it has taught you, continue in him.
82:28And now, little children, continue in him, that when he shall appear we may have boldness, and not be put to shame by him at his coming.2:29If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one who does righteousness has been born of him.
93:1See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. The world therefore knows us not, because it knew him not.
103:2Beloved, now are we children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be. We know, that if he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.3:3And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself, as he is pure.3:4Every one that commits sin commits also wickedness, and sin is wickedness.3:5And we know that he was manifested to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.3:6No one that continues in him sins; no one that sins has seen him, or known him.
113:7Little children, let no one deceive you. He that does righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous;3:8he that commits sin is of the devil, for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this was the Son of God manifested, to destroy the works of the devil.3:9No one that has been born of God commits sin, for his seed continues in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.3:10By this are the children of God manifest, and the children of the devil; no one that does not righteousness is of God, and no one that loves not his brother.3:11For this is the message which you heard from the beginning; that we should love one another;3:12not as Cain was of the evil one and killed his brother; and why did he kill him? because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
123:13Wonder not, brothers, if the world hates you.3:14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers; he that loves not, continues in death.3:15Every one that hates his brother is a murderer; and we know that no murderer has eternal life continuing in him.3:16By this we have known love, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.3:17And whoever has the goods of the world and sees his brother have need, and withholds his compassions from him, how continues the love of God in him?
133:18My little children, let us not love in word nor tongue, but in work and truth.3:19And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him;3:20for if our minds condemn us, God is greater than our minds and knows all things.
143:21Beloved, if our minds do not condemn us, we have boldness before God,3:22and what we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things which are pleasing in his sight.3:23And this is his commandment; that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he gave commandment.3:24And he that keeps his commandments continues in him and he in him; and by this we know that he continues in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
14:1BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.4:2By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,4:3and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. And this is the [spirit] of anti-christ, of which you have heard that he is coming, and he is now in the world already.
24:4You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.4:5They are of the world; therefore they speak of the world and the world hears them.4:6We are of God; he that knows God hears us, he that is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
34:7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and every one that loves has been born of God and knows God.4:8He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.4:9The love of God was manifested to us in this; that God has sent his only Son into the world that we may live through him.4:10In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.
44:11Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.4:12No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God continues in us and his love is perfected in us.4:13By this we know that we continue in him and he in us, that he has given us of his Spirit.4:14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son, the Saviour of the world.4:15Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God continues in him and he in God.4:16And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that continues in love continues in God and God in him.
54:17By this is love perfected with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that as he is we also are in this world.4:18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has pain; and he that is afraid is not made perfect in love.4:19We love, because he first loved us.4:20If any one says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?4:21And we have this commandment from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
65:1Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and every one who loves the Father loves also the Son who is born to him.5:2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.5:3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous;5:4for every child that has been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory which overcomes the world, our faith.5:5Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
75:6This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus, the Christ; not by water only, but by water and by blood; and the Spirit is that which testifies, for the Spirit is the truth.5:7For there are three that testify; the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three are one.5:9If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.5:10He that believes on the Son of God has the testimony in himself; he that believes not God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony which God has testified concerning his Son.5:11And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.5:12He that has the Son has the life; he that has not the Son has not the life.
85:13These things have I written to you, that you who believe in the name of the Son of God may know that you have eternal life.5:14And this is the confidence which we have in respect to him, that if we ask any thing according to his will he hears us.5:15And if we know that he hears us whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.5:16If any one sees his brother commit a sin, not to death, he shall ask, and he will give him life, for those who sin not to death. There is a sin to death; I say not that you should pray for it.5:17All wickedness is sin, and there is sin not to death.
95:18We know that every one who has been born of God does not sin, but he that has been born of God keeps himself, and the evil one does not touch him.5:19We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.5:20And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding that we may know the true One; and we are in the true One, in his Son Jesus Christ; this is the true God, and eternal life.5:21Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
11:1THE elder to the elect Curia and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only but also all who have known the truth,1:2on account of the truth which continues in you, and shall be with you forever.1:3Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, shall be with you in truth and love.
21:4I rejoiced exceedingly that I found your children walking in the truth as we received commandment from the Father.1:5And now I beseech you, Curia, not as if writing a new commandment to you, but [one] which we had from the beginning, that we should love one another.1:6And this is love, that we should walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.1:7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in the flesh; this is the deceiver, and the antichrist.1:8Take heed to yourselves, that ye lose not the labor which you performed, but receive a full reward.1:9Every one who goes beyond, and continues not in the doctrine of Christ, is without God. He that continues in the doctrine has both the Son and the Father.1:10If any one comes to you and brings not this doctrine, receive him not into your houses, and salute him not;1:11for he that salutes him is a partaker of his evil works.
31:12Having many things to write, I do not wish to write with paper and ink, but I hope to be with you and to speak face to face, that our joy may be full.1:13The children of your elect sister salute you.