1 John 2
:1
2:1
My 1little children,
2these things I write to you that you
3may not sin. And if anyone
4sins, we have an
5aAdvocate 6with the
7Father, Jesus Christ the
8bRighteous;
1 John 2
:2
2:2
And He Himself is the
1apropitiation for our
bsins, and not for ours only but also for
those of the
2whole cworld.
2.
Loving God and the brothers
2:3-11
1 John 2
:3
2:3
1And in this we
2know that we
3aknow Him, if we
bkeep His
4commandments.
1 John 2
:4
2:4
He who says, I know Him, and does not keep His commandments is a
1aliar, and the
2btruth is not in this one;
1 John 2
:5
2:5
But whoever
akeeps His
1bword, truly in this one the
2clove of God has been
3dperfected. In this we know that we are
4ein Him.
1 John 2
:6
2:6
He who says he
1aabides in Him ought himself also to
bwalk even
cas 2dHe walked.
1 John 2
:7
2:7
Beloved, I am not writing a
anew commandment to you but an
1old commandment, which you have had
2from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you
bheard.
1 John 2
:8
2:8
Yet again a
1new commandment I am writing to you,
2which is true in Him and in you because the
3adarkness is passing away and the true
blight is already shining.
1 John 2
:9
2:9
He who says he is
ain the
1light and yet
bhates his brother is in the darkness until now.
1 John 2
:10
2:10
He who
aloves his brother
1babides in the
2light, and there is no cause of
cstumbling in him;
1 John 2
:11
2:11
But he who
1ahates his brother is in the
bdarkness and walks in the darkness and does not know where he is
2going, because the darkness has
3cblinded his eyes.
II.
The teaching of the divine anointing
2:12-27
A.
Concerning the Divine Trinity according to the growth in life
vv. 12-19
1 John 2
:12
2:12
I write to you,
1little children, because your sins have been
2aforgiven you because of His
bname.
1 John 2
:13
2:13
I write to you,
1fathers, because you
2aknow 3Him who is
4from the beginning. I write to you,
5young men, because you have
6bovercome the
7cevil one. I
8write to you,
9young children, because you
dknow the
10Father.
1 John 2
:14
2:14
I have
1written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because
2you are
astrong and the word of God
babides in you and you have overcome the
3evil one.
1 John 2
:15
2:15
1Do not love the
2aworld nor the things in the world. If anyone
bloves the
cworld,
3dlove for the
4Father is not in him;
1 John 2
:16
2:16
Because all that is in the world, the
1alust of the flesh and the lust of the
beyes and the vainglory of
2clife, is not of the Father but is of the world.
1 John 2
:17
2:17
And the world is
apassing away, and its
1lust, but he who
2bdoes the
1cwill of God abides forever.
1 John 2
:18
2:18
1Young children, it is the
alast hour; and even as you heard that
2bantichrist is coming, even now
3many antichrists have
ccome; whereby we know that it is the last hour.
1 John 2
:19
2:19
They awent out from us, but they were
1not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have
2remained with us; but
they went out that they might be
bmanifested that they all are not of us.
B.
For the abiding in the Triune God
vv. 20-27
1 John 2
:20
2:20
And you have an
1aanointing from the
bHoly One, and
2call of you
dknow.
1 John 2
:21
2:21
I have not written to you because you do not know the
1truth, but because you
2know it and because no
alie is of the
1truth.
1 John 2
:22
2:22
Who is the
aliar if not he who
1bdenies that
2cJesus is the Christ? This is the
dantichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.
1 John 2
:23
2:23
Everyone who
1denies the Son does not have the
aFather either; he who confesses the
bSon has the Father also.
1 John 2
:24
2:24
As for you,
1that which you heard
2from the beginning, let it abide in you. If that which you
aheard 2from the beginning
babides in you, you also will
3cabide in the
dSon and in the Father.
1 John 2
:25
2:25
And this is the promise which
1He Himself
2promised us, the
3aeternal life.
1 John 2
:26
2:26
These things I have written to you
1concerning those who
2alead you astray.
1 John 2
:27
2:27
And as for you, the
1anointing which you have received from
2Him 3abides in you, and you have
4no need that anyone teach you; but as
2His anointing
5ateaches you concerning
6all things and is
7true and is not a
blie, and even as it has taught you,
8abide in
2Him.
III.
The virtues of the divine birth
2:28—5:21
A.
To practice the divine righteousness
2:28—3:10a
1 John 2
:28
2:28
And now,
1little children,
2abide in Him, so that if
3He is
amanifested, we may have
bboldness and not be
4put to
cshame 5from Him
6at His
dcoming.
1 John 2
:29
2:29
If you
1know that
2He is
3arighteous,
4you 5know that everyone who
6bpractices crighteousness also has been
7begotten of Him.
