Catholic Epistle
A Reading from Epistle 1 of St. John .
May his blessing be upon us.
Amen.
1 John 2 : 20 - 3 : 1
Chapter 2
| 20 | But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.
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| 21 | I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
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| 22 | Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
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| 23 | Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
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| 24 | Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
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| 25 | And this is the promise that He has promised us--eternal life.
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| 26 | These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you.
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| 27 | But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.
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| 28 | And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.
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| 29 | If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.
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Chapter 3
| 1 | Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
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Do not love the world or the things in the world.
The world passes away, and its desires; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
Amen.
