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Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.

We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth,

And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.

Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.

I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.

Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink.

And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—

But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."

But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.

But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,