2 1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. Tests of True Knowledge 3 ¶

3 1 Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear,

4 The Spirit of God and the Spirit of Antichrist 1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 and

5 Faith Is the Victory over the World 1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loves him that begat loves him also that is begotten of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is

The Second Epistle General of Peter [2 Peter] 1 Salutation 1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, ¶ To them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 2 ¶ Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our

2 False Prophets and Teachers 1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth

3 The Promise of the Lord’s Coming 1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: 2 that ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

The First Epistle General of Peter [1 Peter] 1 Salutation 1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, ¶ To the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: ¶ Grace unto you, and peace,

2 1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking, 2 as new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 3 if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. Christ the Living Stone 4 ¶ To whom coming, as unto a living stone,