Study Desk

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for a person is slave to whatever has defeated him.

It would have been better for them not to have known the Way of righteousness than, fully knowing, to turn from the holy command delivered to them.

and asking, "Where is this promised ‘coming' of his? For our fathers have died, and everything goes on just as it has since the beginning of creation."

It is by that same Word that the present heavens and earth, having been preserved, are being kept for fire until the Day of Judgment, when ungodly people will be destroyed.

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some people think of slowness; on the contrary, he is patient with you; for it is not his purpose that anyone should be destroyed, but that everyone should turn from his sins.

as you wait for the Day of God and work to hasten its coming. That Day will bring on the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt from the heat;

but we, following along with his promise, wait for new heavens and a new earth , in which righteousness will be at home.

Therefore, dear friends, as you look for these things, do everything you can to be found by him without spot or defect and at peace.

Also, he is the kapparah for our sins — and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world.

But if someone keeps doing what he says, then truly love for God has been brought to its goal in him. This is how we are sure that we are united with him.

You children, I am writing you because your sins have been forgiven for his sake.

Do not love the world or the things of the world. If someone loves the world, then love for the Father is not in him;

They went out from us, but they weren't part of us; for had they been part of us, they would have remained with us.

As for you, the Messianic anointing you received from the Father remains in you, so that you have no need for anyone to teach you. On the contrary, as his Messianic anointing continues to teach you about all things, and is true, not a counterfeit, so, just as he taught you, remain united with him.

See what love the Father has lavished on us in letting us be called God's children! For that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it has not known him.

The person who keeps on sinning is from the Adversary, because from the very beginning the Adversary has kept on sinning. It was for this very reason that the Son of God appeared, to destroy these doings of the Adversary.

For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning: that we should love each other

We, for our part, know that we have passed from death to life because we keep loving the brothers. The person who fails to keep on loving is still under the power of death.

The way that we have come to know love is through his having laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers!

then, whatever we ask for, we receive from him; because we are obeying his commands and doing the things that please him.