Daily Reading for January 22, 2019

1 John 2

1 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not
sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the
Father--Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2 He is the atoning
sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the
sins of the whole world. 

3 We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands.
4 Whoever says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands
is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. 5 But if anyone
obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them.
This is how we know we are in him: 6 Whoever claims to live
in him must live as Jesus did. 

7 Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old
one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command
is the message you have heard. 8 Yet I am writing you a new
command; its truth is seen in him and in you, because the
darkness is passing and the true light is already shining. 

9 Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or
sister is still in the darkness. 10 Anyone who loves their
brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in
them to make them stumble. 11 But anyone who hates a brother or
sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. 
They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has
blinded them. 

12 I am writing to you, dear children, 
   because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name. 
13 I am writing to you, fathers,
   because you know him who is from the beginning. 
I am writing to you, young men,
   because you have overcome the evil one. 

14 I write to you, dear children, 
   because you know the Father.
I write to you, fathers,
   because you know him who is from the beginning. 
I write to you, young men,
   because you are strong, 
   and the word of God lives in you, 
   and you have overcome the evil one. 

15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone 
loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. 16 For
everything in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of
the eyes, and the pride of life--comes not from the Father but
from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but
whoever does the will of God lives forever.

18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard
that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have
come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19 They went out
from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had
belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their
going showed that none of them belonged to us. 

20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you
know the truth. 21 I do not write to you because you do not know
the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes
from the truth. 22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that
Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist--denying
the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the
Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also. 

24 As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning
remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and
in the Father. 25 And this is what he promised us--eternal life. 

26 I am writing these things to you about those who are trying
to lead you astray. 27 As for you, the anointing you received
from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach
you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as
that anointing is real, not counterfeit--just as it has taught
you, remain in him. 

28 And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he
appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming. 

29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who
does what is right has been born of him.
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