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-\v 1 Little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the one who is righteous.
+\v 1 Children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the one who is righteous.
 \v 2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
 \v 3 We know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.
 
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-\v 12 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven because of his name.
-\v 13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know the one who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, little children, because you know the Father.
+\v 12 I am writing to you, children, because your sins are forgiven because of his name.
+\v 13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know the one who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.
 \v 14 I have written to you, fathers, because you know the one who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
 
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-\v 18 Little children, it is the last hour. Just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, now many antichrists have come. By this we know that it is the last hour.
+\v 18 Children, it is the last hour. Just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, now many antichrists have come. By this we know that it is the last hour.
 \v 19 They went out from us, but they were not from us. For if they had been from us they would have remained with us. But when they went out, that showed they were not from us.
 
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 \v 27 As for you, the anointing that you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you everything and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, remain in him.
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-\v 28 Now, little children, remain in him so that when he appears we will have boldness and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
+\v 28 Now, children, remain in him so that when he appears we will have boldness and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
 \v 29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born from him.
 
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 \v 1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God, and this is what we are. For this reason, the world does not know us, because it did not know him.
 \f + \ft Some important and ancient Greek copies leave out, \fqa and this is what we are \fqa* . \f*
-\v 2 Beloved, we are now little children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we will be. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is.
+\v 2 Beloved, we are now children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we will be. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is.
 \v 3 Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure.
 
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 \v 5 You know that Christ was revealed in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
 \v 6 No one who remains in him will keep on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen him or known him.
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-\v 7 Little children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.
+\v 7 Children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.
 \v 8 The one who commits sin is from the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this reason the Son of God was revealed, so that he would destroy the devil's works.
 
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 \v 9 Whoever has been born from God does not continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him. He cannot continue to sin because he has been born of God.
-\v 10 In this the little children of God and little children of the devil are revealed: Whoever does not do what is righteous is not from God, neither is the one who does not love his brother.
+\v 10 In this the children of God and children of the devil are revealed: Whoever does not do what is righteous is not from God, neither is the one who does not love his brother.
 
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 \v 11 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
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 \v 16 By this we know love, because Christ laid down his life for us. We also ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
 \v 17 But whoever has the world's goods, sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart of compassion from him, how does the love of God remain in him?
-\v 18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in actions and truth.
+\v 18 My children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in actions and truth.
 
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 \v 19 It is by this we know that we are from the truth, and we assure our hearts before him.
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 \v 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world. \f + \ft Some important and ancient Greek copies read, \fqa and every spirit that does not acknowledge that Jesus has come in the flesh is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world \fqa* . \f*
 
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-\v 4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
+\v 4 You are from God, children, and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
 \v 5 They are from the world; therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.
 \v 6 We are from God. Anyone who knows God listens to us. He who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
 
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 \v 1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born from God, and whoever loves a father also loves the child born from him.
-\v 2 This is how we know that we love the little children of God: when we love God and obey his commandments.
+\v 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and obey his commandments.
 \v 3 For this is love for God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
 
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 \v 20 But we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true. Also, we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
-\v 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
+\v 21 Children, keep yourselves from idols.