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1 Scroll 31 First Epistle of John.
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard,
which we have seen with our eyes, which we beheld, and our hands have handled, of the word of the Life;

2 (for the life was manifested, and we have seen, and testify,
and show to you that everlasting life which was with the Father, and was manifested to us).

3 That which we have seen and have heard we declare to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us:
and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.

4 And these things we write to you, that your joy may be full.

5 And this is the message which we have heard from Him,
and declare to you, that God is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all.

6 If we should say that we have fellowship with Him, and should walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the Truth:

7 but if we should walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, we have fellowship one with another,
and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleans us from all sin.

8 If we should say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

9 If we should confess our sins, He is faithful and just, that He may forgive us our sins, and may cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

10 If we should say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

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1 My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin.
And if anyone may sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous:

2 and He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole World.

3 And by this we know that we have known Him, if we should keep His Commandments.

4 He who saying, I have known Him, and keeping not His Commandments, is a liar, and the Truth is not in him.

5 But whoever may keep His word, truly in him the love of God has been perfected: by this we know that we are in Him.

6 He who saying, he stays in Him, ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.

7 Brethren, I write no new Commandment to you, but an old Commandment which ye had from the beginning:
The old Commandment is the Word which ye heard from the beginning.

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 who saying, he be in the light, and hating his brother, is in darkness even until now.

10 He who loving his brother stays in the light, and there is no offence in him.

11 But he who hating his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness,
and has not known where he goes, because darkness has blinded his eyes.

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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 have known Him that is from the beginning.
I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the Evil.
I write to you, children, because ye have known the Father.

14 I wrote to you, fathers, because ye have known Him that is from the beginning.
I wrote to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the Word of GOD stays in you, and ye have overcome the Evil.

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Love not the World, neither the things that are in the World.
If anyone should love the World, the love of the Father is not in him.

16 For all that is in the World, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes,
and the pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the World.

17 And the World is passing away, and the lust of it: but he who doing the will of God stays forever.

18 Children, it is the last hour: and as ye have heard that the Antichrist comes,
and now many antichrists have come; whence we know that it is the last hour.

19 They went out from us,
but they were not of us; for if they were of us, they would had remained with us:
but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they are not all of us.

20 But ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye have known all things.

21 I wrote not to you because ye have not known the Truth,
but because ye have known it, and that no lie is of the Truth.

22 Who is the liar except he who denying that Jesus is the Christ[Messiah]?
This is the Antichrist, that denying the Father and the Son.

23 Whoever denying the Son, the same has not the Father.

24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye heard from the beginning.
If that which ye heard from the beginning may abide in you,
ye also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father.

25 And this is the promise that He has promised us, even everlasting life.

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These things I wrote to you concerning them that seducing you.

27 But the anointing which ye received from Him stays in you,
and ye need not that anyone should teach you:
but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true,
and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, ye shall abide in Him.

28 And now, little children, abide in Him; that when He should appear,
we may have confidence, and may not be ashamed before Him at His Coming.

29 If ye may know that He is righteous ye know that every one that doing righteousness has been born of Him.

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1 Behold, what manner of love the Father has given upon us,
that we should be called the Children of GOD: therefore the World knows us not, because it knew not Him.

2 Beloved, now are we the Children of GOD, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be:
but we have known that, when He may be manifested, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.

3 And every man that having this hope in Him purifies himself, even as He is pure.

4 Whoever that doing the sin also does lawlessness, and the sin is lawlessness.

5 And ye have known that He was manifested that our sins He may take away; and in Him is no sin.

6 Whoever abiding in Him sins not: whoever sins has not seen Him, neither has known Him.

7 Little children, let no man deceive you.
He who doing the righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous.

8 He who doing the sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning.
For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might break the works of the devil.

9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin; for His seed remains in him:
and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

10 In this the Children of GOD are manifest, and the children of the devil:
whoever doing not righteousness is not of God, neither he who loving not his brother.

11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

12 Not as Cain, who was of the Evil, and slew his brother.
And why did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the World hate you.

14 We have known that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren.
He who loving not the brethren, stays in death.

15 Whoever hating his brother, is a murderer:
and ye have known that no murderer has everlasting life abiding in him.

16 By this we perceive the love of Him,
because He laid down His life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

17 But whoever may have the World's good, and may see his brother having need,
and shuts up his bowels of compassion from him, how abides the love of God in him?

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My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in Truth.

19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before Him.

20 That if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, then have we confidence towards GOD.

22 And whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His Commandments,
and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.

23 And this is His Commandment;
That we should believe in the Name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another,
as He gave us Commandment.

24 And he who keeping His Commandments, abides in Him, and He in him.
And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit which He gave us.

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1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they are of God:
because many false prophets have gone out into the World.

2 By this ye know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ having come in flesh, is from God:

3 and every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ having come in flesh, is not from God. And this is that of the Antichrist,
of which ye have heard that it comes; and even now already it is in the World.

4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them:
because greater is He who is in you, than He who is in the World.

5 They are of the World: therefore they speak from the World, and the World hears them.

6 We are of God: he who knowing God, hears us; he who is not of God,
hears not us. By this we know the Spirit of Truth, and the spirit of error.

7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is from God;
and every one that loving has been born of God, and knows God.

8 He who loving not, knows not God; for God is love.

9 In this was manifested the love of God towards us,
because that God has sent His only-begotten Son into the World, that we might live through Him.

10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also one another to love.

12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.

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By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

14 And we have seen and do testify, that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the World.

15 Whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

16 And we have known and have believed the love that God has to us.
God is love: and he who abiding in love, abides in God, and God in him.

17 In this love has been perfected with us, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment:
because as He is, so are we in this World.

18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear:
because fear has torment. He who fearing, is not made perfect in love.

19 We love Him, because He first loved us.

20 If any may say, I love God, and may hate his brother,
he is a liar. For he who loving not his brother, whom he has seen,
how can he love God, whom he has not seen?

21 And this Commandment have we from Him,
That he who loving God, also should love his brother.

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1 Whoever believing that Jesus is the Christ[Messiah], has been born of God:
and every one that loving Him that begat, loves Him also that has been born by Him.

2 By this we know that we love the Children of GOD, when we love God, and we should keep His Commandments.

3 For this is the love of God, that we should keep His Commandments; and His Commandments are not grievous.

4 For whatever has been born of God, overcomes the World:
and this is the victory that has overcome the World,
even our faith.

5 Who is he who overcoming the World,
except he who believing that Jesus is the Son of God?

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This is He who having come through water and blood,
Jesus the Christ[Messiah]; not by water only, but by water and blood.
And it is the Spirit that bears testimony, because the Spirit is the Truth.

7 For there are three that testifying:

8 the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three are agree in one.

9 If we receive the testimony of men, greater is the testimony of God:
for this is the testimony of God which He has testified of His Son.

10 He who believing in the Son of God has the witness in himself:
He who not believing God, has made Him out to be a liar,
because he has not believed the testimony that God gave of the Son of Him.

11 And this is the testimony,
that God gave to us everlasting life: and this life in His Son.

12 He who having the Son, has life;
he who having not the Son of God, has not life.

13 These things I wrote to you that believing in the Name of the Son of God;
that ye may know that ye have everlasting life, and that ye may believe in the Name of the Son of God.

14 And this is the confidence that we have in Him,
that if anything that we may ask according to His will, He hears us:

15 and if we have known that He hears us, whatever we may ask,
we have known that we have the requests that we have desired from Him.

16 If anyone should see his brother sinning a sin which is not to death,
he shall ask, and he will give him life for them that sinning not to death.
There is a sin to death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not to death.

18 We have known that whoever has been born of God, sins not;
but that was born of God, keeps himself, and the Evil touches him not.

19 We have known that we are of God, and the whole World lies in the Evil.

20 But we have known that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding,
that we may know Him that is True, and we are in Him that is True,
even in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the True God, and everlasting life.

21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen!