约翰一书 2
1 我亲爱的孩子们，我写这封信给你们，是为了让你们不犯罪。但如果有人犯了罪，在父面前会有一人保护我们，那就是耶稣基督，他是真正的正直良善。
My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. Yet if any one has sinned, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Just One.
2 通过他，我们的罪得到宽恕——不只是我们的罪，还包括全世界的罪。
And he is a propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
3 我们可以确定的是，如果我们遵循他的命令，就认识他。
And by this, we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.
4 凡是说“我认识他”的人，如果不遵守他命令，就是在说谎。就不是遵循真理。
He who says, I have known him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in this man.
5 但那些遵守上帝之道的人，他的爱便把他们的头脑充满。这样我们就知道，我们便与他同在。
But whoever keeps his word, truly in this man the love of God is perfected. By this we know that we are in him.
6 那些说自己与他同在的，行为就应该像耶稣基督。
He who says he abides in him, ought, himself, also, so to walk even as he walked.
7 我的朋友们，我写给你们这封信，并不是要给出新命令，而是要说到你们从初始之刻就已有的旧命令。这旧命令就是你们听过的道。
Brethren, I do not write a new commandment to you; but an old commandment, which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word, which you have heard from the beginning.
8 但从某种角度而言，我也在给你们一个新命令。黑暗即将结束，真正的光已在照耀，它的真理已在耶稣和你们身上显化。
On the other hand, I write to you a new commandment, which is true concerning him and concerning you. For the darkness is passing away, and the light, which is true, now shines.
9 那些说自己身处光明之中、却憎恨其他基督徒的人，他们的内在还有黑暗。
He who says he is in the light and yet hates his brother, is in the darkness till now.
10 那些热爱其他基督徒的人，就是生活在光中，就不会让其他人变得有罪。
He who loves his brother, abides in the light, and there is no stumbling block to him.
11 那些憎恨其他基督徒的人，就是身处黑暗之中。他们在黑暗中跌跌撞撞。不知道要去哪里，因为黑暗弄瞎了他的眼睛。
But he who hates his brother, is in the darkness, and walks in that darkness, and does not know whither he goes; because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
12 亲爱的朋友们，我写信给你们这些孩子，因为你们的罪已通过主的名得到赦免。
Little children, I write to you, because your sins are forgiven you, on account of his name.
13 我写信给你们这些父亲，因为你们知道自世界之初便已存在的那个人。我写信给青年们，因为你们已战胜了邪恶之人。
Fathers, I write to you, because you have known him from the beginning. Young men, I write to you, because you have overcome the wicked one.
14 我写信给你们这些孩子，因为你们认识父。我写信给你们这些父亲，因为你们认识自世界之初就已存在的那个人。我写信你们这些年轻人，因为你们很坚强。上帝之道就在你们之中，你已经打败邪恶之人。
Fathers, I have written to you, because you have known him from the beginning. Young men, I have written to you, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.
15 不要爱这个世界，不要爱这世上的一切。如果你爱这个世界，你就不会再有父的爱。
Love not the world, neither the things which are in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 因为这世上的一切——我们的欲望之罪，渴望拥有所看到的一切，吹嘘我们今生所达成的一切，这些都不是出于父，而是出于这个世界。
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Now the world passes away, and the lust of it; be he who does the will of God, abides forever. (aiōn g165)
18 亲爱的朋友们，此刻就是末日。你们已经听到反基督力量的到来，很多反基督的力量已经到来；所以我们才知道，此刻就是末日。
Young children, it is the last period. And as you have heard that the antichrist comes, so, now, there are many antichrists; whence you know that it is the last period.
19 他们已经离开了我们，他们不再属于我们，当他们离开时，他们所有人就显示出不再属于我们。
They went away from us, but they were not of us. For, if they had been of us, they would have abode with us; but they went away, that they might be made manifest that they were not of us.
20 但你们已在圣灵的祝福中获得膏抹，你们所有人都知道这是真相。
But you have an unction from the Holy One, and know all things.
21 我写信给你们，不是因为你们不明白真相，而是因为你们知道，因为谎言绝不会出于真理。
I have not written to you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
22 那么谁是在说谎？—— 就是那否认耶稣是基督的人。否认父和子，就是反基督。
Who is a liar, if not he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
23 否认子，便没有父；承认子，便有父。
Whoever denies the Son, does not acknowledge the Father.
24 至于你们，务必要始终生活在从最初便听到一切；如果你生活在从最初听见的一切，也就住在父和子之中。
Therefore, let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you have heard from the beginning, abide in you; you also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father:
and this is the promise which he has promised to us, even eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
26 我写信给你们这些，是想警醒你们那些想要带你们走入迷途之人。
These things I have written to you, concerning them who deceive you;
27 你们从他那里得到膏抹，就意味着圣灵住在你们之中，你们不需要被任何人教导。圣灵的恩膏教导你们一切。这是事实，不是谎言。所以活在基督之中，就像你已受到教导一样。
but the unction which you have received from him abides in you; and you have no need that any one should teach you, unless the same unction teaches you concerning all things, and is truth, and is no lie: and as it has taught you, you will abide in him.
28 我亲爱的孩子们，你们要住在主之中，以便在他出现时，我们就可以自信，不会在他到来的时候感到惭愧。
And now, little children, abide in him, that when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and may not be put to shame by him, at his coming.
29 如果你们知道他的良善和正直，就应当知道所有良善正直之人都是上帝所生。
If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one who works righteousness, has been begotten by him.
