Hello, and welcome
back to His Words Are Life.
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Thank you for joining with
me to read the Bible today.
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But before we read
together, let's pray.
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Dear Jesus, we want to grow in
Your grace, and we want to grow
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in a knowledge of You.
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We don't want to be just babes
content to stay where we are.
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We want to learn more and
go deeper and deeper into Your
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love, and into the character
of who You are, so that Your
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character can be made into
us and we can shine for You.
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Please help us now as we read to
understand these words in a new
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way, and may they make
us better to serve You.
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We love You so much and
thank You for loving us.
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Amen.
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We're reading today from the
second book of Peter, chapter 1,
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and starting with verse 21.
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And this is the
King James Version.
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For the prophecy came not
in old time by the will of man:
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but holy men of God
spake as they were moved
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by the Holy Ghost.
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And continuing now in chapter 2.
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But there were false
prophets also among the people,
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even as there shall be false
teachers among you, who privily
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shall bring in damnable
heresies, even denying the Lord
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that bought them,
and bring upon themselves
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swift destruction.
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And many shall follow their
pernicious ways; by reason of
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whom the way of truth
shall be evil spoken of.
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And through covetousness shall
they with feigned words make
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merchandise of you: whose
judgment now of a long time
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lingereth not, and their
damnation slumbereth not.
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For if God spared not the angels
that sinned, but cast them down
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to hell, and delivered
them into chains of darkness,
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to be reserved unto judgment;
and spared not the old world,
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but saved Noah the
eighth person, a preacher of
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righteousness, bringing in
the flood upon the world of the
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ungodly; and turning the cities
of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes
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condemned them with an
overthrow, making them an
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example unto those that
after should live ungodly;
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and delivered just Lot, vexed
with the filthy conversation
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of the wicked: (for that
righteous man dwelling among
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them, in seeing and hearing,
vexed his righteous soul from
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day to day with their unlawful
deeds;) the Lord knoweth how to
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deliver the godly out of
temptations, and to reserve the
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unjust unto the day of judgment
to be punished: but chiefly
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them that walk after the flesh
in the lust of uncleanness,
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and despise government.
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Presumptuous are they,
self-willed, they are not afraid
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to speak evil of dignities.
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Whereas angels, which are
greater in power and might,
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bring not railing accusation
against them before the Lord.
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But these, as natural
brute beasts, made to be taken
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and destroyed, speak evil of the
things that they understand not;
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and shall utterly perish in
their own corruption; and shall
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receive the reward of
unrighteousness, as they that
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count it pleasure
to riot in the daytime.
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Spots they are and blemishes,
sporting themselves with their
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own deceivings while they feast
with you; having eyes full of
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adultery, and that cannot cease
from sin; beguiling unstable
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souls: an heart they
have exercised with covetous
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practices; cursed children:
which have forsaken the right
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way, and are gone astray,
following the way of Balaam
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the son of Bosor, who loved
the wages of unrighteousness;
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but was rebuked for his
iniquity: the dumb ass speaking
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with man's voice forbade
the madness of the prophet.
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These are wells without water,
clouds that are carried with a
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tempest; to whom the mist of
darkness is reserved for ever.
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For when they speak
great swelling words of vanity,
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they allure through the
lusts of the flesh, through much
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wantonness, those that
were clean escaped from them
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who live in error.
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While they promise them liberty,
they themselves are the servants
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of corruption: for of whom a
man is overcome, of the same is
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he brought in bondage.
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For if after they have escaped
the pollutions of the world
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through the knowledge of the
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
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they are again
entangled therein, and overcome,
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the latter end is worse
with them than the beginning.
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For it had been better for them
not to have known the way of
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righteousness, than, after they
have known it, to turn from the
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holy commandment
delivered unto them.
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But it is happened unto them
according to the true proverb,
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The dog is turned to his own
vomit again; and the sow that
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was washed to her
wallowing in the mire.
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We're continuing to read
in the second book of Peter,
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chapter 3.
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And this is the
King James Version.
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This second epistle,
beloved, I now write unto you;
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in both which I stir up
your pure minds by way of
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remembrance: that ye may be
mindful of the words which were
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spoken before by the holy
prophets, and of the commandment
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of us the apostles of the Lord
and Savior: knowing this first,
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that there shall come
in the last days scoffers,
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walking after their own lusts,
and saying, Where is the promise
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of his coming? for
since the fathers fell asleep,
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all things continue as
they were from the beginning
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of the creation.
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For this they willingly are
ignorant of, that by the word of
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God the heavens were of old,
and the earth standing out of
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the water and in the water:
whereby the world that then was,
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being overflowed with water,
perished: but the heavens and
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the earth, which are now, by
the same word are kept in store,
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reserved unto fire against the
day of judgment and perdition
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of ungodly men.
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But, beloved, be not ignorant of
this one thing, that one day is
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with the Lord as a thousand
years, and a thousand years
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as one day.
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The Lord is not slack concerning
his promise, as some men count
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slackness; but is long-suffering
to us-ward, not willing that any
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should perish, but that
all should come to repentance.
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But the day of the Lord will
come as a thief in the night;
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in the which the heavens shall
pass away with a great noise,
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and the elements shall melt with
fervent heat, the earth also
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and the works that are
therein shall be burned up.
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Seeing then that all
these things shall be dissolved,
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what manner of persons
ought ye to be in all holy
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conversation and godliness,
looking for and hasting unto
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the coming of the day of God,
wherein the heavens being on
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fire shall be dissolved,
and the elements shall melt
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with fervent heat?
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Nevertheless we, according
to his promise, look for new
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heavens and a new earth,
wherein dwelleth righteousness.
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Wherefore, beloved, seeing
that ye look for such things,
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be diligent that ye may be found
of him in peace, without spot,
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and blameless.
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And account that the
long-suffering of our Lord
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is salvation; even as
our beloved brother Paul also
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according to the wisdom given
unto him hath written unto you;
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As also in all his epistles,
speaking in them of these
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things; in which are some
things hard to be understood,
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which they that are
unlearned and unstable wrest,
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as they do also
the other scriptures,
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unto their own destruction.
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Ye therefore, beloved, seeing
ye know these things before,
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beware lest ye also, being
led away with the error of the
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wicked, fall from
your own steadfastness.
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But grow in grace, and in
the knowledge of our Lord and
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Savior Jesus Christ.
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To him be glory
both now and for ever.
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Amen.
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Continuing now in the first
epistle of John, chapter 1,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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That which was from the
beginning, which we have heard,
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which we have seen with our
eyes, which we have looked upon,
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and our hands have
handled, of the Word of life;
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(for the life was manifested,
and we have seen it, and bear
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witness, and show unto you that
eternal life, which was with the
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Father, and was manifested
unto us;) that which we have
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seen and heard declare we
unto you, that ye also may have
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fellowship with us: and
truly our fellowship is with the
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Father, and with
his Son Jesus Christ.
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And these things write we unto
you, that your joy may be full.
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This then is the message
which we have heard of him,
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and declare unto
you, that God is light,
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and in him is
no darkness at all.
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If we say that we
have fellowship with him,
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and walk in darkness, we
lie, and do not the truth:
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but if we walk in the
light, as he is in the light,
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we have fellowship one with
another, and the blood of Jesus
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Christ his Son
cleanseth us from all sin.
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If we say that we have no
sin, we deceive ourselves,
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and the truth is not in us.
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If we confess our sins, he is
faithful and just to forgive us
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our sins, and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness.
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If we say that we have not
sinned, we make him a liar,
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and his word is not in us.
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Continuing with
1 John, chapter 2.
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This is the King James Version.
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My little children,
these things write I unto you,
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that ye sin not.
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And if any man sin, we have
an advocate with the Father,
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Jesus Christ the righteous:
and he is the propitiation
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for our sins: and not for
ours only, but also for the sins
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of the whole world.
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And hereby we do
know that we know him,
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if we keep his commandments.
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He that saith, I know him, and
keepeth not his commandments,
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is a liar, and the
truth is not in him.
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But whoso keepeth his word,
in him verily is the love of God
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perfected: hereby
know we that we are in him.
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He that saith he abideth in him
ought himself also so to walk,
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even as he walked.
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Brethren, I write no
new commandment unto you,
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but an old commandment
which ye had from the beginning.
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The old commandment is
the word which ye have heard
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from the beginning.
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Again, a new commandment I write
unto you, which thing is true in
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him and in you: because the
darkness is past, and the true
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light now shineth.
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He that saith he is in the
light, and hateth his brother,
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is in darkness even until now.
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He that loveth his
brother abideth in the light,
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and there is none
occasion of stumbling in him.
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But he that hateth his brother
is in darkness, and walketh in
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darkness, and knoweth not
whither he goeth, because that
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darkness hath blinded his eyes.
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I write unto you, little
children, because your sins are
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forgiven you
for his name's sake.
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I write unto you, fathers,
because ye have known him that
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is from the beginning.
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I write unto you, young
men, because ye have overcome
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the wicked one.
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I write unto you, little
children, because ye have
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known the Father.
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I have written unto you,
fathers, because ye have known
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him that is from the beginning.
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I have written unto you, young
men, because ye are strong,
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and the word of God abideth
in you, and ye have overcome
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the wicked one.
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Love not the world, neither the
things that are in the world.
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If any man love the
world, the love of the Father
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is not in him.
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For all that is in the
world, the lust of the flesh,
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and the lust of the
eyes, and the pride of life,
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is not of the
Father, but is of the world.
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And the world passeth
away, and the lust thereof:
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but he that doeth the
will of God abideth for ever.
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Little children, it is the last
time: and as ye have heard that
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antichrist shall come, even
now are there many antichrists;
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whereby we know
that it is the last time.
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They went out from us,
but they were not of us;
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for if they had been of
us, they would no doubt have
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continued with us: but they
went out, that they might be
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made manifest that
they were not all of us.
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But ye have an
unction from the Holy One,
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and ye know all things.
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I have not written unto you
because ye know not the truth,
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but because ye know it, and
that no lie is of the truth.
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Who is a liar but he
that denieth that Jesus
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is the Christ?
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He is antichrist, that
denieth the Father and the Son.
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Whosoever denieth the Son,
the same hath not the Father:
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but he that acknowledgeth
the Son hath the Father also.
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Let that therefore abide in
you, which ye have heard from
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the beginning.
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If that which ye have heard from
the beginning shall remain in
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you, ye also shall continue
in the Son, and in the Father.
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And this is the promise
that he hath promised us,
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even eternal life.
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Until we're together again,
may each of us continue to
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abide in the word of
God, and the truth that He has
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shown us today.
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Thank you for being with me.
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Please come back next time.
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Goodbye.
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