Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,
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1 John
and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,
and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,
and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.
Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;
in this know ye the Spirit of God; every spirit that doth confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is,
and every spirit that doth not confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is not; and this is that of the antichrist, which ye heard that it doth come, and now in the world it is already.
Ye — of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who [is] in you, than he who is in the world.
They — of the world they are; because of this from the world they speak, and the world doth hear them;
we — of God we are; he who is knowing God doth hear us; he who is not of God, doth not hear us; from this we know the spirit of the truth, and the spirit of the error.
Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;
he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.
In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son — the only begotten — hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;
in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.
Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;
God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;
in this we know that in Him we do remain, and He in us, because of His Spirit He hath given us.
And we — we have seen and do testify, that the Father hath sent the Son — Saviour of the world;
whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God in him doth remain, and he in God;
and we — we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.
In this made perfect hath been the love with us, that boldness we may have in the day of the judgment, because even as He is, we — we also are in this world;
fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;
we — we love him, because He — He first loved us;
if any one may say — 'I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God — whom he hath not seen — how is he able to love?
and this [is] the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.
Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:
in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;
for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;
because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world — our faith;
who is he who is overcoming the world, if not he who is believing that Jesus is the Son of God?
This one is he who did come through water and blood — Jesus the Christ, not in the water only, but in the water and the blood; and the Spirit it is that is testifying, because the Spirit is the truth,
because three are who are testifying [in the heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these — the three — are one;
and three are who are testifying in the earth], the Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and the three are into the one.
If the testimony of men we receive, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that He hath testified concerning His Son.
He who is believing in the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself; he who is not believing God, a liar hath made Him, because he hath not believed in the testimony that God hath testified concerning His Son;
and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this — the life — is in His Son;
he who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having the Son of God — the life he hath not.
These things I did write to you who are believing in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that life ye have age-during, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.
And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,
and if we have known that He doth hear us, whatever we may ask, we have known that we have the requests that we have requested from Him.
If any one may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give to him life to those sinning not unto death; there is sin to death, not concerning it do I speak that he may beseech;
all unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not unto death.
We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;
we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;
and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!
Little children, guard yourselves from the idols! Amen.
2 John
The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth,
because of the truth that is remaining in us, and with us shall be to the age,
there shall be with you grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
I rejoiced exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, even as a command we did receive from the Father;
and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,
and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,
because many leading astray did enter into the world, who are not confessing Jesus Christ coming in flesh; this one is he who is leading astray, and the antichrist.
See to yourselves that ye may not lose the things that we wrought, but a full reward may receive;
every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son;
if any one doth come unto you, and this teaching doth not bear, receive him not into the house, and say not to him, 'Hail!'
for he who is saying to him, 'Hail,' hath fellowship with his evil works.
Many things having to write to you, I did not intend through paper and ink, but I hope to come unto you, and speak mouth to mouth, that our joy may be full;
salute thee do the children of thy choice sister. Amen.
3 John
The Elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth!
beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,
for I rejoiced exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk;
greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.
Beloved, faithfully dost thou do whatever thou mayest work to the brethren and to the strangers,
who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,
because for [His] name they went forth, nothing receiving from the nations;
we, then, ought to receive such, that fellow-workers we may become to the truth.
I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them — Diotrephes — doth not receive us;
because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast.
Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;
to Demetrius testimony hath been given by all, and by the truth itself, and we also — we do testify, and ye have known that our testimony is true.
Many things I had to write, but I do not wish through ink and pen to write to thee,
and I hope straightway to see thee, and mouth to mouth we shall speak. Peace to thee! salute thee do the friends; be saluting the friends by name.
Jude
Judas, of Jesus Christ a servant, and brother of James, to those sanctified in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ kept — called,
kindness to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied!
Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,
for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord — Jesus Christ — denying,
and to remind you I intend, you knowing once this, that the Lord, a people out of the land of Egypt having saved, again those who did not believe did destroy;
messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,
as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before — an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.
In like manner, nevertheless, those dreaming also the flesh indeed do defile, and lordship they put away, and dignities they speak evil of,
yet Michael, the chief messenger, when, with the devil contending, he was disputing about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring up an evil-speaking judgment, but said, 'The Lord rebuke thee!'
and these, as many things indeed as they have not known, they speak evil of; and as many things as naturally (as the irrational beasts) they understand, in these they are corrupted;
woe to them! because in the way of Cain they did go on, and to the deceit of Balaam for reward they did rush, and in the gainsaying of Korah they did perish.
These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;
wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.
And prophesy also to these did the seventh from Adam — Enoch — saying, 'Lo, the Lord did come in His saintly myriads,
to do judgment against all, and to convict all their impious ones, concerning all their works of impiety that they did impiously, and concerning all the stiff things that speak against Him did impious sinners.'
These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;
and ye, beloved, remember ye the sayings spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:
that they said to you, that in the last time there shall be scoffers, after their own desires of impieties going on,
these are those setting themselves apart, natural men, the Spirit not having.
And ye, beloved, on your most holy faith building yourselves up, in the Holy Spirit praying,
yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ — to life age-during;
and to some be kind, judging thoroughly,
and some in fear save ye, out of the fire snatching, hating even the coat from the flesh spotted.
And to Him who is able to guard you not stumbling, and to set [you] in the presence of His glory unblemished, in gladness,
to the only wise God our Saviour, [is] glory and greatness, power and authority, both now and to all the ages! Amen.
Revelation
A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify [it], having sent through his messenger to his servant John,
who did testify the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, as many things also as he did see.