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1 John 2:13–14

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I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
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From verse 13

  1. John 14:7Rank 1 from verse 13
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    7If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

  2. 1 John 2:14Rank 2 from verse 13
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    14I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

  3. 1 John 1:1Rank 3 from verse 13
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    1THAT which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;

  4. 1 John 4:4Rank 4 from verse 13
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    4Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

  5. Luke 10:22Rank 5 from verse 13
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    22All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.

  6. 1 John 5:4–5Rank 6 from verse 13
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    4For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

    5Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

  7. John 17:3Rank 7 from verse 13
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    3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

  8. 1 John 3:12Rank 8 from verse 13
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    12Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

  9. 1 John 5:18Rank 9 from verse 13
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    18We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

  10. Ephesians 6:10–12Rank 10 from verse 13
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    10Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

    11Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

    12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

  11. Matthew 11:27Rank 11 from verse 13
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    27All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

  12. 1 John 2:1Rank 12 from verse 13
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    1MY 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:

  13. 1 John 2:12Rank 13 from verse 13
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    12I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

  14. 1 John 5:20Rank 14 from verse 13
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    20And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

  15. 1 Peter 5:8–9Rank 15 from verse 13
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    8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

    9Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

  16. 2 Corinthians 4:6Rank 16 from verse 13
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    6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

  17. John 14:9Rank 17 from verse 13
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    9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

  18. John 16:3Rank 18 from verse 13
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    3And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

  19. John 8:19Rank 19 from verse 13
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    19Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.

  20. John 8:54–55Rank 20 from verse 13
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    54Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:

    55Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.

  21. Matthew 13:19Rank 21 from verse 13
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    19When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

  22. Matthew 13:38Rank 22 from verse 13
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    38The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

  23. Proverbs 20:29Rank 23 from verse 13
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    29The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

  24. Titus 2:6Rank 24 from verse 13
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    6Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.

  25. Psalms 90:2Rank 25 from verse 13
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    2Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

  26. Psalms 91:14Rank 26 from verse 13
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    14Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

  27. 1 John 2:3–4Rank 27 from verse 13
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    3And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

    4He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

  28. 1 Timothy 5:1Rank 28 from verse 13
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    1REBUKE not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

  29. Joel 2:28Rank 29 from verse 13
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    28¶ And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

  30. John 17:21Rank 30 from verse 13
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    21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

  31. Zechariah 9:17Rank 31 from verse 13
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    17For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.

  32. Psalms 148:12Rank 32 from verse 13
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    12Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:

From verse 14

  1. Psalms 119:11Rank 1 from verse 14
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    11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

  2. 1 John 2:13Rank 2 from verse 14
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    13I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

  3. Colossians 3:16Rank 3 from verse 14
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    16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

  4. John 15:7Rank 4 from verse 14
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    7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

  5. Ephesians 6:10Rank 5 from verse 14
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    10Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

  6. John 8:31Rank 6 from verse 14
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    31Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

  7. John 5:38Rank 7 from verse 14
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    38And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.

  8. Revelation 2:7Rank 8 from verse 14
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    7He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

  9. 2 John 1:2Rank 9 from verse 14
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    2For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.

  10. 3 John 1:3Rank 10 from verse 14
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    3For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.

  11. Hebrews 8:10Rank 11 from verse 14
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    10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

  12. Colossians 1:11Rank 12 from verse 14
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    11Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

  13. 2 Timothy 2:1Rank 13 from verse 14
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    1THOU therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

  14. Philippians 4:13Rank 14 from verse 14
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    13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

  15. Revelation 2:3Rank 15 from verse 14
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    3And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

  16. 1 John 1:10Rank 16 from verse 14
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    10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

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1 John 2:13

COMBINED MEANING

write

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Sense 1: To form letters or words, inscribe, record, compose, copy, or communicate in writing. Sense 2: By figure, to impress and establish something upon the heart or mind.

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COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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young

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1. Early in life or growth. 2. Offspring or young persons or creatures.

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children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

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father

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Sense 1: A male parent or begetter. Sense 2: An ancestor, forefather, founder, source, originator, chief, elder, or one bearing paternal authority and care. Sense 3: God as Father, including the Father of Jesus Christ and of those described as his children.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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1 John 2:14

COMBINED MEANING

written

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Past-tense or past-participial form of write (to set down, record, or communicate in letters or writing).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

young

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1. Early in life or growth. 2. Offspring or young persons or creatures.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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strong

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Having great power, might, firmness, courage, capacity, influence, defence, health, intensity, or ability to act, endure, resist, overcome, or support.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

word

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Sense 1: A spoken or written expression, saying, message, command, promise, report, or matter. Sense 2: God's revealed word.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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2:12I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

2:13I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

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2:14I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

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2:15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

2:16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

2:17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

2:18Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

2:19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

2:20But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

2:21I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

2:22Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

2:23Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

2:24Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

2:25And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

2:26These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

2:27But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

2:28And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

2:29If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

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