because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions)<n id="1" /> is not from the Father, but is from the world.

Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ<n id="1" />? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.

By this<n id="1" /> the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness &#8211; the one who does not love his fellow Christian<n id="2" /> &#8211; is not of God.p>

not like Cain<n id="1" /> who was of the evil one and brutally<n id="2" /> murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother&#8217;s were righteous.p>

but<n id="1" /> every spirit that does not confess<n id="2" /> Jesus<n id="3" /> is not from God, and this is the spirit<n id="4" /> of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.p>

In this<n id="1" /> is love: not that<n id="2" /> we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice<n id="3" /> for our sins.p>

If<n id="1" /> anyone sees his fellow Christian<n id="2" /> committing a sin not resulting in death,<n id="3" /> he should ask, and God<n id="4" /> will grant<n id="5" /> life to the person who commits a sin not resulting in death.<n id="6" /> There is a sin resulting in death.<n id="7" /> I do not say that he should ask about that.

<t /><p class="bodytext">From<n id="1" /> the elder,<n id="2" /> to an elect lady<n id="3" /> and her children, whom I love in truth<n id="4" /> (and not I alone, but also all those<n id="5" /> who know the truth),

<p class="bodytext">Everyone<n id="1" /> who goes on ahead and does not remain<n id="2" /> in the teaching of Christ<n id="3" /> does not have God.<n id="4" /> The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Though I have many other<n id="1" /> things to write to you, I do not want to do so with<n id="2" /> paper and ink,<n id="3" /> but I hope to come visit you and speak face to face,<n id="4" /> so that our joy may be complete.<n id="5" />p>

But even<n id="1" /> when Michael the archangel<n id="2" /> was arguing with the devil and debating with him<n id="3" /> concerning Moses&#8217; body, he did not dare to bring a slanderous judgment, but said, &#8220;May the Lord rebuke you!&#8221;

&#8216;I know the distress you are suffering<n id="1" /> and your poverty (but you are rich). I also know<n id="2" /> the slander against you<n id="3" /> by those who call themselves Jews and really are not, but are a synagogue<n id="4" /> of Satan.

Therefore, remember what you received and heard,<n id="1" /> and obey it,<n id="2" /> and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will never<n id="3" /> know at what hour I will come against<n id="4" /> you.

The one who conquers<n id="1" /> will be dressed like them<n id="2" /> in white clothing,<n id="3" /> and I will never<n id="4" /> erase<n id="5" /> his name from the book of life, but<n id="6" /> will declare<n id="7" /> his name before my Father and before his angels.

Because you say, &#8220;I am rich and have acquired great wealth,<n id="1" /> and need nothing,&#8221; but<n id="2" /> do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful,<n id="3" /> poor, blind, and naked,

They<n id="1" /> cried out with a loud voice,<n id="2" /> &#8220;How long,<n id="3" /> Sovereign Master,<n id="4" /> holy and true, before you judge those who live on the earth and avenge our blood?&#8221;

They<n id="1" /> were told<n id="2" /> not to damage the grass of the earth, or any green plant or tree, but only those people<n id="3" /> who did not have the seal of God on their<n id="4" /> forehead.

In<n id="1" /> those days people<n id="2" /> will seek death, but<n id="3" /> will not be able to<n id="4" /> find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.p>

For three and a half days those from every<n id="1" /> people, tribe,<n id="2" /> nation, and language will look at their corpses, because they will not permit them to be placed in a tomb.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">But<n id="1" /> they overcame himp> <p class="poetry">by the blood of the Lambp> <p class="poetry">and by the word of their testimony,p> <p class="poetry">and they did not love their lives<n id="2" /> so much that they were afraid to die.p>