1 My dear children, I write this letter to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone sins, we have YAHUSHA MESSIAH to help us. He always did what was right, so He is able to defend us before YAHUAH the Father. 2 YAHUSHA is the way our sins are taken away. And He is the way all people can have their sins taken away too. 3 If we obey what YAHUSHA has told us to do, then we are sure that we know Him. 4 If we say we know YAHUSHA but do not obey His commands, we are lying, and the truth is not in us. 5 But when we obey YAHUSHA’S Words, His love is truly working in us. This is how we know that we are living in Him. 6 If we say we live in YAHUSHA, we must behave the way YAHUSHA did.
7 My dear friends, I’m not writing a new command to you. It is the same command you’ve had since the beginning. This command is the same Words you’ve already heard. 8 But what I write is also a new command. It is a true one, and you can see its truth in YAHUSHA and in yourselves. The darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.
9 Someone might say, “I’m in the light,” but if they hate any of their brothers or sisters in YAHUSHA’S family, they are still in the darkness. 10 But those who love their brothers and sisters, live in the light, and there is nothing in them that will make them do wrong (there is no stumbling block and they are not offended by others). 11 But whoever hates their brother or sister is in darkness. They live in darkness. They don’t know where they are going, because the darkness has made them blind.
12 I write to you, dear children, because your sins are forgiven through Messiah’s Name. 13 I write to you, fathers, because you know the one who existed from the beginning. I write to you, young people, because you have defeated the Evil One. 14 I write to you, children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know the one who existed from the beginning. I write to you, young people, because you are strong. The word of YAHUSHA lives in you, and you have defeated the Evil One.
15 Don’t love this evil world or the things in it. If you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. 16 This is all there is in the world: wanting to please our sinful desires (lusts of the flesh), wanting all the things we see (lust of the eyes), and being completely up ourselves (the pride of life). But none of these comes from the Father. They come from the world. 17 The world is passing away, and all the things that people want in the world are passing away. But whoever does what YAHUSHA wants will live forever.
18 My dear children, it is the last hour! You’ve heard that the Anti-Messiah (the true enemy of Messiah) is coming. And now many enemies of Messiah are already here. So we know that the end is very near. 19 These enemies were in our group, but they left us. They did not really belong with us. If they were really part of our group, they would have stayed with us. But they left. This shows that none of them really belonged with us.
20 You have an anointing that the Set-Apart One gave you, so you all know the truth. 21 Do you think I’m writing this letter because you don’t know the truth? No, I’m writing because you do know the truth, and you know that no lie comes from the truth.
22 So who is the liar? It is the one who says YAHUSHA is not the Messiah. Whoever says that is the Anti-Messiah—the one who does not believe in the Father or in his Son. 23 Whoever does not believe in the Son does not have the Father, but whoever accepts the Son has the Father too. 24 Be sure that you continue to follow the teaching you heard from the beginning. If you do that, you will always be in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is what the Son promised us—eternal life.
26 I’m writing this letter about those who are trying to lead you astray. 27 The anointing that you hav receive from YAHUSHA stays in you, so you don’t need anyone else to teach you. Yes, this same anointing teaches you all things, and there’s no falsehood in Him. So continue to live in Messiah, as He’s taught you. 28 Yes, my dear children, stay in Him. For if we do this, we can be without fear on the day when Messiah comes again. We will not need to hide and be ashamed when He comes. 29 You know that Messiah always did what was right. He was obedient! So you know that all those who behave what is right and are obedient, have been borne of Him.
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