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The Incarnation of the Word of Life
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.
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We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
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Light and Darkness, Sin and Forgiveness
This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
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Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.
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Warnings Against Denying the Son
Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.
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As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
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More on Love and Hatred
For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
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This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence:
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If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
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Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God
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but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
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This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
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And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
