Study Desk

But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. [fn]

I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.

But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will [fn] abide in Him.

Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

In this is love, not that we 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, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

This is He who came by water and blood--Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.

We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, [fn] and the wicked 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 those who have known the truth,

And now I plead with you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we have had from the beginning: that we love one another.

Look to yourselves, that we [fn] do not lose those things we worked for, but that we [fn] may receive a full reward.

Having many things to write to you, I did not wish to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.

I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us.

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but [fn] he who does evil has not seen God.

I had many things to write, but I do not wish to write to you with pen and ink;