约翰一书 2
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耶稣为天下人做挽回的祭
2 我小子们哪,我将这些话写给你们,是要叫你们不犯罪。若有人犯罪,在父那里我们有一位中保,就是那义者耶稣基督。 2 他为我们的罪做了挽回祭,不是单为我们的罪,也是为普天下人的罪。 3 我们若遵守他的诫命,就晓得是认识他。 4 人若说“我认识他”,却不遵守他的诫命,便是说谎话的,真理也不在他心里了。 5 凡遵守主道的,爱神的心在他里面实在是完全的;从此,我们知道我们是在主里面。 6 人若说他住在主里面,就该自己照主所行的去行。
黑暗光明的反对
7 亲爱的弟兄啊,我写给你们的不是一条新命令,乃是你们从起初所受的旧命令,这旧命令就是你们所听见的道。 8 再者,我写给你们的是一条新命令,在主是真的,在你们也是真的,因为黑暗渐渐过去,真光已经照耀。 9 人若说自己在光明中,却恨他的弟兄,他到如今还是在黑暗里。 10 爱弟兄的,就是住在光明中,在他并没有绊跌的缘由; 11 唯独恨弟兄的,是在黑暗里,且在黑暗里行,也不知道往那里去,因为黑暗叫他眼睛瞎了。
12 小子们哪,我写信给你们,因为你们的罪借着主名得了赦免。 13 父老啊,我写信给你们,因为你们认识那从起初原有的。少年人哪,我写信给你们,因为你们胜了那恶者。小子们哪,我曾写信给你们,因为你们认识父。
爱世和爱父的反对
14 父老啊,我曾写信给你们,因为你们认识那从起初原有的。少年人哪,我曾写信给你们,因为你们刚强,神的道常存在你们心里,你们也胜了那恶者。 15 不要爱世界和世界上的事。人若爱世界,爱父的心就不在他里面了。 16 因为凡世界上的事,就像肉体的情欲、眼目的情欲并今生的骄傲,都不是从父来的,乃是从世界来的。 17 这世界和其上的情欲都要过去,唯独遵行神旨意的,是永远常存。
18 小子们哪,如今是末时了。你们曾听见说那敌基督的要来,现在已经有好些敌基督的出来了;从此,我们就知道如今是末时了。 19 他们从我们中间出去,却不是属我们的,若是属我们的,就必仍旧与我们同在;他们出去,显明都不是属我们的。 20 你们从那圣者受了恩膏,并且知道这一切的事[a]。 21 我写信给你们,不是因你们不知道真理,正是因你们知道,并且知道没有虚谎是从真理出来的。 22 谁是说谎话的呢?不是那不认耶稣为基督的吗?不认父与子的,这就是敌基督的。 23 凡不认子的,就没有父;认子的,连父也有了。
主应许永生
24 论到你们,务要将那从起初所听见的常存在心里。若将从起初所听见的存在心里,你们就必住在子里面,也必住在父里面。 25 主所应许我们的就是永生。 26 我将这些话写给你们,是指着那引诱你们的人说的。 27 你们从主所受的恩膏常存在你们心里,并不用人教训你们,自有主的恩膏在凡事上教训你们。这恩膏是真的,不是假的。你们要按这恩膏的教训住在主里面。
行公义的都是主所生的
28 小子们哪,你们要住在主里面。这样,他若显现,我们就可以坦然无惧,当他来的时候在他面前也不至于惭愧。 29 你们若知道他是公义的,就知道凡行公义之人都是他所生的。
Footnotes
- 约翰一书 2:20 或作:都有知识。
1 John 2
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 2
Christ and His Commandments. 1 My children,[a] I am writing this to you so that you may not commit sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous one.(A) 2 He is expiation for our sins, and not for our sins only but for those of the whole world.(B) 3 The way we may be sure[b] that we know him is to keep his commandments.(C) 4 Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.(D) 5 But whoever keeps his word, the love of God is truly perfected in him. This is the way we may know that we are in union with him:(E) 6 whoever claims to abide in him ought to live [just] as he lived.
The New Commandment.[c] 7 Beloved, I am writing no new commandment to you but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.(F) 8 And yet I do write a new commandment to you, which holds true in him and among you,[d] for the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.(G) 9 Whoever says he is in the light, yet hates his brother, is still in the darkness.(H) 10 Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is nothing in him to cause a fall.(I) 11 Whoever hates his brother is in darkness; he walks in darkness and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
Members of the Community.[e] 12 I am writing to you, children, because your sins have been forgiven(J) for his name’s sake.[f]
13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning.
I am writing to you, young men, because you have conquered the evil one.(K)
14 I write to you, children, because you know the Father.
I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young men, because you are strong and the word of God remains in you, and you have conquered the evil one.
15 Do not love the world or the things of the world.[g] If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.(L) 16 For all that is in the world, sensual lust,[h] enticement for the eyes, and a pretentious life, is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 Yet the world and its enticement are passing away. But whoever does the will of God remains forever.(M)
Antichrists. 18 Children, it is the last hour;[i] and just as you heard that the antichrist was coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. Thus we know this is the last hour.(N) 19 They went out from us, but they were not really of our number;[j] if they had been, they would have remained with us. Their desertion shows that none of them was of our number. 20 But you have the anointing that comes from the holy one,[k] and you all have knowledge.(O) 21 I write to you not because you do not know the truth but because you do, and because every lie is alien to the truth.(P) 22 [l]Who is the liar? Whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Whoever denies the Father and the Son, this is the antichrist.(Q) 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.(R)
Life from God’s Anointing. 24 (S)Let what you heard from the beginning remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.[m] 25 And this is the promise that he made us: eternal life.(T) 26 I write you these things about those who would deceive you. 27 As for you, the anointing that you received from him remains in you, so that you do not need anyone to teach you. But his anointing teaches you about everything and is true and not false; just as it taught you, remain in him.
Children of God. 28 [n]And now, children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not be put to shame by him at his coming. 29 If you consider that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who acts in righteousness is begotten by him.
Footnotes
- 2:1 Children: like the term “beloved,” this is an expression of pastoral love (cf. Jn 13:33; 21:5; 1 Cor 4:14). Advocate: for the use of the term, see Jn 14:16. Forgiveness of sin is assured through Christ’s intercession and expiation or “offering”; the death of Christ effected the removal of sin.
- 2:3–6 The way we may be sure: to those who claim, “I have known Christ and therefore I know him,” our author insists on not mere intellectual knowledge but obedience to God’s commandments in a life conformed to the example of Christ; this confirms our knowledge of him and is the love of God…perfected. Disparity between moral life and the commandments proves improper belief.
- 2:7–11 The author expresses the continuity and freshness of mutual charity in Christian experience. Through Christ the commandment of love has become the light defeating the darkness of evil in a new age. All hatred as darkness is incompatible with the light and Christian life. Note also the characteristic Johannine polemic in which a positive assertion is emphasized by the negative statement of its opposite.
- 2:8 Which holds true in him and among you: literally, “a thing that holds true in him and in you.”
- 2:12–17 The Christian community that has experienced the grace of God through forgiveness of sin and knowledge of Christ is armed against the evil one.
- 2:12 For his name’s sake: because of Christ our sins are forgiven.
- 2:15 The world: all that is hostile toward God and alienated from him. Love of the world and love of God are thus mutually exclusive; cf. Jas 4:4.
- 2:16 Sensual lust: literally, “the lust of the flesh,” inordinate desire for physical gratification. Enticement for the eyes: literally, “the lust of the eyes,” avarice or covetousness; the eyes are regarded as the windows of the soul. Pretentious life: literally, “pride of life,” arrogance or ostentation in one’s earthly style of life that reflects a willful independence from God and others.
- 2:18 It is the last hour: literally, “a last hour,” the period between the death and resurrection of Christ and his second coming. The antichrist: opponent or adversary of Christ; the term appears only in 1 John–2 John, but “pseudochrists” (translated “false messiahs”) in Mt 24:24 and Mk 13:22, and Paul’s “lawless one” in 2 Thes 2:3, are similar figures. Many antichrists: Matthew, Mark, and Revelation seem to indicate a collectivity of persons, here related to the false teachers.
- 2:19 Not really of our number: the apostate teachers only proved their lack of faith by leaving the community.
- 2:20 The anointing that comes from the holy one: this anointing is in the Old Testament sense of receiving the Spirit of God. The holy one probably refers to Christ. True knowledge is the gift of the Spirit (cf. Is 11:2), and the function of the Spirit is to lead Christians to the truth (Jn 14:17, 26; 16:13).
- 2:22–23 Certain gnostics denied that the earthly Jesus was the Christ; to deny knowledge of the Son is to deny the Father, since only through the Son has God been fully revealed (Jn 1:18; 14:8–9).
- 2:24 Continuity with the apostolic witness as proclaimed in the prologue is the safeguard of right belief.
- 2:28–29 Our confidence at his judgment is based on the daily assurance of salvation. Our actions reflect our true relation to him.
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