1 John 2:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I have sent a letter to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I have sent a letter to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is in you, and because you have overcome the Evil One.

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  • 1 John 2:13 : 13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil One. I have sent a letter to you, children, because you have knowledge of the Father.
  • Eph 6:10 : 10 Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.
  • John 5:38 : 38 And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.
  • John 8:31 : 31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;
  • John 15:7 : 7 If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.
  • Phil 4:13 : 13 I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.
  • Col 1:11 : 11 Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy;
  • Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.
  • 2 Tim 2:1 : 1 So then, my child, be strong in the grace which is in Christ Jesus.
  • Heb 8:10 : 10 For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:
  • 1 John 1:10 : 10 If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.
  • 2 John 1:2 : 2 Because of this true knowledge which is in us, and will be with us for ever:
  • 3 John 1:3 : 3 For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in the true way.
  • Rev 2:3 : 3 And you have the power of waiting, and have undergone trouble because of my name, without weariness.
  • Rev 2:7 : 7 He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the fruit of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.

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  • 1 John 2:12-13
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    12 I am writing to you, my children, because you have forgiveness of sins through his name.

    13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil One. I have sent a letter to you, children, because you have knowledge of the Father.

  • 1 John 4:4
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    4 You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

  • 1 John 2:24-29
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    24 But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.

    25 And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life.

    26 I am writing these things to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way.

    27 As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.

    28 And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.

    29 If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15 Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • 1 John 2:6-8
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    6 He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.

    7 My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.

    8 Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.

  • 1 John 2:20-21
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    20 And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.

    21 I have not sent you this letter because you have no knowledge of what is true, but because you have knowledge, and because that which is false has nothing in common with that which is true.

  • 2 John 1:1-9
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    1 I, a ruler in the church, send word to the noble sister who is of God's selection, and to her children, for whom I have true love; and not only I, but all who have knowledge of what is true;

    2 Because of this true knowledge which is in us, and will be with us for ever:

    3 May grace, mercy, and peace be with us from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in all true love.

    4 It gave me great joy to see some of your children walking in the true way, even as we were ordered to do by the Father.

    5 And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.

    6 And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.

    7 Because a number of false teachers have gone out into the world, who do not give witness that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Such a one is a false teacher and Antichrist.

    8 Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.

    9 Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.

  • 1 John 5:13
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    13 I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.

  • 1 John 2:1
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    1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:

  • 1 John 1:1-5
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    1 That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life

    2 (And the life was made clear to us, and we have seen it and are witnessing to it and giving you word of that eternal life which was with the Father and was seen by us);

    3 We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:

    4 And we are writing these things to you so that our joy may be made complete.

    5 This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.

  • 2 Tim 3:14
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    14 But see that you keep to the teaching you have been given and the things of which you are certain, conscious of who has been your teacher;

  • 1 John 3:11
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    11 Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;

  • 1 John 3:7-8
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    7 My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;

    8 The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.

  • 1 John 5:19-21
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    19 We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

    20 And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

    21 My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.

  • 3 John 1:11-12
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    11 My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.

    12 Demetrius has the approval of all men and of what is true: and we give the same witness, and you are certain that our witness is true.

  • 1 John 2:17-18
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    17 And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.

    18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you were given word that the Antichrist would come, so now a number of Antichrists have come to you; and by this we are certain that it is the last hour.

  • John 15:27
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    27 And you, in addition, will give witness because you have been with me from the first.

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1 See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

  • 1 John 3:14
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    14 We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

  • 1 Cor 4:14
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    14 I am not saying these things to put you to shame, but so that, as my dear children, you may see what is right.

  • 2 Pet 3:17
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    17 For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.

  • Rev 2:2
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    2 I have knowledge of your doings, and of your hard work and long waiting, and that you will not put up with evil men, and have put to the test those who say they are Apostles and are not, and have seen that they are false;

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14 Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

  • 1 John 5:4
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    4 Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.