6Or, Comforter Jo 14:16. or, Helper Gk. Paraclete.
2: 2 and he is an 7atonement for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
7Or, propitiation (See Lv 25:9, Septuagint). Also in ch. 4:10. (Related to mercy seat in Lv 16:13-14)
2: 3 And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
2: 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
2: 5 but whoso keepeth his word, in him truly hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:
2: 6 he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also 8so to walk even as he walked.
8BA 2344 33 copsa vg omit so
2: 7 Beloved, no new commandment write I unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye heard.
2: 8 Again, a new commandment write I unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shineth.
2: 9 He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother, is in the darkness even until now.
2: 10 He that 9loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.
9Gk. a·ga·pa′·ō (αγαπαω), to love with godly/ benevolent love. This word and a·ga′·pē (αγαπη), godly love, are used throughout John’s epistles, but never fil·e′·ō (φιλεω), to love with filial love. Note a contrast of these words in Jo 21:15-17.
2: 11 But he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.
2: 12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.
2: 13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye know him who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil one.
2: 14 I wrote unto you, little children, because ye know the Father. I wrote unto you, fathers, because ye know him who is from the beginning. I wrote unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the evil one.
2: 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
2: 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
2: 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth 10for ever.
10Gk. unto the age.
2: 18 Little children, it is a last hour: and as ye heard 11that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby we know that it is a last hour.
11Or, that an antichrist cometh, So Bℵ*Cψ 1739. 1852 1241 1243 2344 33 322 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., arm read that the antichrist cometh, A 1881 read the antichrist cometh,
2: 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest 12that they all are not of us.
12Or, that not all are of us.
2: 20 And ye have an 13anointing from the Holy One, 14and ye all know.
13Gk. chrisma Compare Christ (Anointed) in vs. 22.
14So Bℵψ 1852 and 8 lesser Gk. mss., copsa arm. But AC 1739 1881 1243 2344 33 322 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., copbo vg read and ye know all things.
2: 21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
2: 22 Who is the liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, even he that denieth the Father and the Son.
2: 23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: 15he that confesseth the Son hath the Father also.
151241 and 399 other Gk. mss. omit he that confesseth the Son hath the Father also. (a homoioteleuton, or the scribe’s eye skipping from one ending to another like ending in the Greek, seems likely.) The other better mss. and versions include it.
2: 24 As for you, let that abide in you which ye heard from the beginning. If that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you, ye also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father.
2: 25 And this is the promise which he promised 16us, even the life eternal.
16B 1881 1241 almost alone read you,
2: 26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that would lead you astray.
2: 27 And as for you, the 17anointing which ye received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any one teach you; but as his anointing teacheth you concerning all things, 18and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, 19ye abide in him.
17Gk. chrisma Compare Christ (Anointed) in vs. 22.
18Or, so it is true, and is no lie; and even as etc.
19Or, abide ye in him.
2: 28 And now, my little children, abide in him; that, 20if he shall be manifested, we 21may have boldness, and not be ashamed 22before him in his presence.
20So BAℵCψ 1739 1852 1881 1241 1243 2344 33 322. 1175 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss. read when he shall be manifested,
2133 (2344) and the majority of lesser mss., read might
22Gk. from him
2: 29 If ye know that he is righteous, 23ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him.
23Or, know ye that
