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Therefore, dear friends, because you are waiting for these things, make every effort to be found at peace, spotless and unblemished in him.

and he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

The one who loves his brother resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But they went out, in order that it might be shown that all of them are not of us.

As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

And as for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you do not have need that anyone teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you reside in him.

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this reason the Son of God was revealed: in order to destroy the works of the devil.

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

not as Cain, who was of the evil one and violently murdered his brother. And for what reason did he violently murder him? Because his deeds were evil and the deeds of his brother were righteous.

In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar, for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen is not able to love God whom he has not seen.

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,

For there are three that testify,

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

Watch yourselves that you do not lose what we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

For I rejoiced exceedingly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, just as you are walking in the truth.

Dear friend, you act faithfully in whatever you do for the brothers, even though they are strangers.

For they have gone out on behalf of the name, accepting nothing from the pagans.

Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who are called, loved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ.

Dear friends, although I was making every effort to write to you concerning our common salvation, I considered it a necessity to write to you to encourage you to contend for the faith delivered once and for all to the saints.