 Section one of the Epistles of John. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Paul Brian Stewart. The first Epistle of John from Young's Literal Translation, translated by Robert Young. Chapter One. That which was from the beginning. That which we have heard. That which we have seen with our eyes. That which we did behold. And our hands did handle. Concerning the word of the life. And the life was manifested. And we have seen and do testify. And declare to you the life. The age during. Which was with the Father. And was manifested to us. That which we have seen and heard. Declare we to you. That ye also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father. And with the Son Jesus Christ. And these things we write to you. That your joy may be full. And this is the message that we have heard from him. And announce to you. That God is light. And darkness in him is not at all. If we may say. We have fellowship with him. And in the darkness may walk we lie. And do not the truth. And if in the light we may walk. As he is in the light. We have fellowship one with another. And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son doth cleanse us from every sin. If we may say. We have not sinned. Our selves we lead astray. And the truth is not in us. If we may confess our sins. Steve fast is he. And righteous that he may forgive us the sins. And may cleanse us from every unrighteousness. If we may say. We have not sinned. A liar we make him. And his word is not in us. Chapter 2. My little children. These things I write to you. That ye may not sin. And if anyone may sin. An advocate we have with the Father Jesus Christ. A righteous one. And he. He is a propitiation for our sins. And not for ours only. But also for the whole world. And in this we know that we have known him. If his commands we may keep. He who is saying I have known him. And his command is not keeping. A liar he is. And in him the truth is not. And whoever may keep his word. Truly in him the love of God have been perfected. In this we may know that in him we are. He who is saying in him he doth remain. Or according as he walked also himself so to walk. Brethren. A new command I write not to you. But an old command. That ye had from the beginning. The old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning. Again. A new command I write to you. Which thing is true in him and in you. Because the darkness doth pass away. And the true light doth now shine. He who is saying in the light he is. And his brother is hating. In the darkness he is till now. He who is loving his brother. In the light he doth remain. And a stumbling block in him there is not. And he who is hating his brother. In the darkness he is. And in the darkness he doth walk. And he hath not known wither he doth go. Because the darkness did blind his eyes. I write to you little children. Because the sins have been forgiven through his name. I write to you fathers. Because ye have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you young men. Because ye have overcome the evil. I write to you little youths. Because you have known the father. I did write to you fathers. Because ye have known him who is from the beginning. I did write to you young men. Because ye are strong. And the word of God and you doth remain. And ye have overcome the evil. Love not ye the world. Nor the things in the world. If anyone doth love the world. The love of the father is not in him. Because all that is in the world. The desire of the flesh. And the desire of the eyes. And the ostentation of the life. Is not of the father. But of the world. And the world doth pass away. And the desire of it. And he who is doing the will of God he doth remain. To the age. Little youths. It is the last hour. And even as ye heard that the antichrist doth come. Even now antichrists have become many. Whence we know that it is the last hour. Out of us they went forth. But they were not of us. For if they had been of us they would have remained with us. But they might be manifested that they are not all of us. And ye have an anointing from the Holy One. And have known all things. I did not write to you because ye have not known the truth. But because ye have known it. And because no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar? Except he who is denying that Jesus is the Christ. This one is the antichrist who is denying the Father and the Son. Everyone who is denying the Son. Neither hath he the Father. He who is confessing the Son hath the Father also. Ye then that which ye heard from the beginning. And ye let it remain. If in ye may remain that which from the beginning ye did hear. Ye also in the Son and in the Father shall remain. And this is the promise that he did promise us. The life. The age during. These things I did write to you concerning those leading you astray. And you, the anointing that ye did receive from him. And you at doth remain. And ye have no need that anyone may teach you. But as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all. And is true. And is not a lie. And even as was taught you ye shall remain in him. And now little children remain in him. That when he may be manifested we may have boldness and may not be ashamed before him in his presence. If ye know that he is righteous know ye that everyone doing the righteousness of him hath been begotten. Chapter 3 See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called. Because of this the world doth not know us. Because it did not know him. Beloved now, children of God are we. And it was not yet manifested what we shall be. And we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be. Because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who is having this hope on him doth purify himself, even as he is pure. Everyone who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do. And the sin is the lawlessness. And ye have known that he was manifested, that our sins he may take away. And sin is not in him. Everyone who is remaining in him doth not sin. Everyone who is sinning hath not seen him nor known him. Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He who is doing the sin of the devil he is. Because from the beginning the devil doth sin. For this was the Son of God manifested. That he may break up the works of the devil. Everyone who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not. Because his seed in him doth remain. And he is not able to sin. Because of God he hath been begotten. In this manifest are the children of God. And the children of the devil. Everyone who is not doing righteousness is not of God. And he who is not loving his brother. Because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning. That we may love one another, not as Cain, of the evil one he was. And he did slay his brother. And wherefore did he slay him? Because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous. Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you. We have known that we have passed out of the death to the life. Because we love the brethren. He who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death. Everyone who is hating his brother, a man-killer he is. And he have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining. In this we have known the love. Because he for us his life did lay down. And we awought for the brethren the lives to lay down. And whoever may have the goods of the world. And may view his brother having need. And may shut up his bowels from him. How doth the love of God remain in him? My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth. And in this we know that of the truth we are. And before him we shall assure our hearts. Because if our heart may condemn, because greater is God than our heart, and he doth know all things. Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness towards God. And whatever we may ask we receive from him. Because his commands we keep. And the things pleasing before him we do. And this is his command. That we may believe in the name of his son Jesus Christ. And may love one another. Even as he did give command to us. And he who is keeping his commands in him he doth remain. And he in him. And in this we know that he doth remain in us, from the Spirit that he gave us. Chapter 4 Beloved, every Spirit believe not, but prove the Spirits, if of God they are. Because many false prophets have gone forth to the world. In this know ye the Spirit of God. Every Spirit that doth confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is. And every Spirit that doth not confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is not. And this is that of the Antichrist, which he heard that it doth come, and now in the world it is already. Ye of God ye are little children, and we have overcome them. Because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. They of the world they are. Because of this from the world they speak, and the world doth hear him. We of God we are. He who is knowing God doth hear us. He who is not of God doth not hear us. From this we know the Spirit of the truth, and the Spirit of the era. Beloved, may we love one another. Because the love is of God, and everyone who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God. He who is not loving did not know God, because God is love. In this was manifested the love of God in us. Because his Son, the only begotten, hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him. And this is the love. Not that we loved God, but that he did love us, and did send his Son appropriation for our sins. Beloved, if this God did love us, we also ought one another to love. God no one hath ever seen. If we may love one another, God and us doth remain, and his love is having been perfected in us. And this we know that in him we do remain, and he in us, because of his Spirit he hath given us. And we, we have seen and do testify that the Father hath sent the Son, Savior of the world. Whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God and him doth remain, and he in God. And we, we have known and believed the love that God hath in us. God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, and God he doth remain, and God in him. And this made perfect hath been the love with us, that boldness we may have in the day of the judgment. Because even as he is, we, we also are in this world. Fear is not in love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment. And he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love. We, we love him, because he, he first loved us. If anyone may say I love God, and his brother he may hate, a liar he is. For he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God whom he hath not seen, how is he able to love? And this is the command we have from him, that he who is loving God may also love his brother. Chapter 5 Everyone who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and everyone who is loving him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of him. And this we know that we love the children of God. When we may love God, and his commands may keep. For this is the love of God, that his commands we may keep. And his commands are not burdensome, because everyone who is begotten of God doth overcome the world. And this is the victory that did overcome the world, our faith. Who is he who is overcoming the world, if not he who is believing that Jesus is the Son of God? This one is he who did come through water and blood, Jesus the Christ, not in the water only, but in the water and the blood, and the Spirit it is that is testifying, because the Spirit is the truth, because three are who are testifying, in the heaven the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these the three are one. And three are who are testifying in the earth, the Spirit and the water and the blood, and the three are into one. If the testimony of men we receive, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that he hath testified concerning his Son. He who is believing in the Son of God hath the testimony in himself. He who is not believing God, Eliah hath made him, because he hath not believed in the testimony that God hath testified concerning his Son. And this is the testimony that life age during did God give to us, and this the life is in his Son. He who is having the Son hath the life. He who is not having the Son of God, the life he hath not. These things I did write to you who are believing in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that life ye have aged during, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God. And this is the boldness that we have to award him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, he doth hear us. And if we have known that he doth hear us, whatever we may ask, we have known that we have the request that we have requested from him. If anyone may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give to him life to those sinning not unto death. There is sin to death, not concerning it, do I speak, that he may be Siege. All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not unto death. We have known that everyone who hath been begotten of God doth not sin. But he who is begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him. We have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie. And we have known that the Son of God has come, and hath given us a mind that we may know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and the life age during. Little children, guard yourself from the idols. Amen. End of the First Epistle of John from Young's Literal Translation. Translated by Robert Young. Section 2 of the Epistles of John. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Paul Bryan Stewart. The Second Epistle of John from Young's Literal Translation. Translated by Robert Young. The elder to the choice could ear, and to her children whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth. Because of the truth that is remaining in us, and with us shall be to the age. This shall be with you grace, kindness, peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. I rejoiced exceedingly that I have found of their children walking in truth, even as a command we did receive from the Father. And now I beseech thee, quidia, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another, and this is the love, that we may walk according to his commands. This is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk, because many leading astray did enter into the world, who are not confessing Jesus Christ coming in flesh. This one is he who is leading astray, and the Antichrist. See to yourself that ye may not lose the things we have bought, but a full reward may receive. Every one who is transgressing and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ hath not God. He who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son. If anyone doeth come unto you, and this teaching doeth not bear, receive him not into the house, and say not to him, hail, for he who is saying to him, hail, hath fellowship with his evil works. Many things having to write to you, I did not intend through paper and ink, but I hope to come unto you, and speak mouth to mouth, that our joy may be full. Salute ye, do the children of thy choice sister. Amen. Third Epistle of John, from Young's literal translation of the Holy Scriptures, translated by Robert Young. We then ought to receive such that, fellow workers, we may become to the truth. I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them, deotrafies, doth not receive us. Because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words preting against us, and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast. Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good. He who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God. To Demetrius' testimony hath been given by all, and by the truth itself, and we also we do testify, and ye have known that our testimony is true. Many things I had to write, but I do not wish through ink and pen to write to thee, and I hope straight away to see thee, and mouth to mouth we shall speak. Peace to thee. Salute thee, do the friends. Be saluting the friends by name. End of Third Epistle of John.