1 John 2:4

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.

and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”

You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!

They cry to me, ‘My God, we Israel acknowledge you!’

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.