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                            1:1
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                            作长老的写信给蒙拣选的太太(或作:教会;下同),和他的儿女,就是我诚心所爱的;不但我爱,也是一切知道真理之人所爱的。
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                            The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all they that know the truth;
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                            1:2
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                            爱你们是为真理的缘故,这真理存在我们里面,也必永远与我们同在。
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                            for the truth`s sake which abideth in us, and it shall be with us for ever:
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                            1:3
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                            恩惠,怜悯,平安从父神和他儿子耶稣基督在真理和爱心上必常与我们同在!
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                            Grace, mercy, peace shall be with us, from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
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                            1:4
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                            我见你的儿女,有照我们从父所受之命令遵行真理的,就甚欢喜。
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                            I rejoice greatly that I have found [certain] of thy children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.
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                            1:5
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                            太太啊,我现在劝你,我们大家要彼此相爱。这并不是我写一条新命令给你,乃是我们从起初所受的命令。
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                            And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
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                            1:6
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                            我们若照他的命令行,这就是爱。你们从起初所听见当行的,就是这命令。
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                            And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.
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                            1:7
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                            因为世上有许多迷惑人的出来,他们不认耶稣基督是成了肉身来的;这就是那迷惑人、敌基督的。
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                            For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, [even] they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.
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                            1:8
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                            你们要小心,不要失去你们(有古卷:我们)所做的工,乃要得着满足的赏赐。
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                            Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.
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                            1:9
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                            凡越过基督的教训、不常守着的,就没有神;常守这教训的,就有父又有子。
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                            Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.
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                            1:10
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                            若有人到你们那里,不是传这教训,不要接他到家里,也不要问他的安;
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                            If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into [your] house, and give him no greeting:
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                            1:11
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                            因为问他安的,就在他的恶行上有分。
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                            for he that giveth him greeting partaketh in his evil works.
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                            1:12
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                            我还有许多事要写给你们,却不愿意用纸墨写出来,但盼望到你们那里,与你们当面谈论,使你们的喜乐满足。
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                            Having many things to write unto you, I would not [write them] with paper and ink: but I hope to come unto you, and to speak face to face, that your joy may be made full.
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                            1:13
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                            你那蒙拣选之姊妹的儿女都问你安。
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                            The children of thine elect sister salute thee.
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