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For [while] speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with [the] lusts of [the] flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,

promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery.

For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through [the] knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first.

For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known [it] to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep all things remain thus from [the] beginning of [the] creation.

For this is hidden from them through their own wilfulness, that heavens were of old, and an earth, having its subsistence out of water and in water, by the word of God,

But the present heavens and the earth by his word are laid up in store, kept for fire unto a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, by reason of which [the] heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and [the] elements, burning with heat, shall melt?

But, according to his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.

Wherefore, beloved, as ye wait for these things, be diligent to be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless;

and *he* is the propitiation for our sins; but not for ours alone, but also for the whole world.

I write to you, children, because [your] sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

And the world is passing, and its lust, but he that does the will of God abides for eternity.

They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have surely remained with us, but that they might be made manifest that none are of us.

As for *you* let that which ye have heard from the beginning abide in you: if what ye have heard from the beginning abides in you, *ye* also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.

See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called [the] children of God. For this reason the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

Beloved, now are we children of God, and what we shall be has not yet been manifested; we know that if it is manifested we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

He that practises sin is of the devil; for from [the] beginning the devil sins. To this end the Son of God has been manifested, that he might undo the works of the devil.

For this is the message which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:

Hereby we have known love, because *he* has laid down his life for us; and *we* ought for the brethren to lay down [our] lives.