¹⁴ 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 in you doth remain, and ye have overcome the evil.

¹³ 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 ye have known the Father:

¹⁰ As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;

³⁸ and His word ye have not remaining in you, because whom He sent, him ye do not believe.

¹¹ In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.

⁷ He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming -- I will give to him to eat of the tree of life that is in the midst of the paradise of God.

³ and thou didst bear, and hast endurance, and because of my name hast toiled, and hast not been weary.

³ for I rejoiced exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk;

² because of the truth that is remaining in us, and with us shall be to the age,

¹⁰ if we may say -- `we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

¹⁰ because this `is' the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people;

¹ Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that `is' in Christ Jesus,

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

¹¹ in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.

¹³ For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

⁷ if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

³¹ Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,