MODERN LITERAL VERSION

2:1 My little children, these things I am writing to you* that* you* may not sin. And if anyone should sin, we have a Helper* with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
2:2 And he is the atonement on behalf of our sins, and not on behalf of ours only, but also on behalf of the whole world.
2:3 And we know by this that we have known him; if we keep his commandments.
2:4 He who says, I know him and is not keeping his commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in him;
2:5 but whoever keeps his word, truly the love* of God has been perfected in him. We know by this that we are in him.
2:6 He who says he {F} abides in him, also ought to walk so; just-as he walked.

2:7 Brethren, I write no new commandment to you*, but an old commandment which you* have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you* heard from the beginning.
2:8 Again, I am writing a new commandment to you*, which is true in him and in you*, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already appearing.
2:9 He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.
2:10 He who loves* his brother abides in the light and there is no offense in him.
2:11 But he who hates his brother is in the darkness and is walking in the darkness and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

2:12 I am writing to you*, my little children, because your * sins have been forgiven you* because of his name.
2:13 I am writing to you*, fathers, because you* have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you*, young-men, because you* have overcome the evil one. I write to you*, little children, because you* have known the Father.
2:14 I have written to you*, fathers, because you* have known him who is from the beginning. I have written to you*, young men, because you* are strong and the word of God abides in you* and you* have overcome the evil one.

2:15 Do not love* the world, nor the things which are in the world. If anyone loves* the world, the love* of the Father is not in him.
2:16 Because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the egotism of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.
2:17 And the world is passing away and its lust, but he who practices the will of God abides forever.

2:18 Little children, it is the last hour and just-as you* heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come* to be; hence we know that it is the last hour.
2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of* us; for* if they had been of* us, they would have remained with us, but they went out, that* they might be made manifest that all of them are not of* us.
2:20 And you* have an anointing from the Holy One and you* know all things.
2:21 I have not written to you* because you* do not know the truth, but because you* know it and because every lie is not of* the truth.
2:22 Who is the liar except he who is denying that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who is denying the Father and the Son.
2:23 Everyone who is denying the Son, he does not have the Father.
2:24 Therefore let this abide in you* which you* heard from the beginning. If what you* heard from the beginning abides in you*, you* will also abide in the Son and in the Father.
2:25 And this is the promise which he promised us, everlasting life.
2:26 I have written to you* these things concerning those who are misleading you*.
2:27 And as for you*, the anointing which you* received from him abides in you* and you* do not need that* anyone should teach you*, but as the same anointing teaches you* concerning all things and is true and is not a lie and just-as it taught you*, you* will abide in him.
2:28 And now, my little children, abide in him; that*, whenever he is made manifest, we may have boldness and should not be ashamed in his presence.
2:29 If you* know that he is righteous, you* also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born from him.
{Footnotes: 1Jn 2:6- The word ‘abide' as used throughout the Letters of John also can be translated as ‘dwell' or ‘remain' (as in 2:19).}