1 John 5:19 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁹ We know that we belong to God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil One.

³¹ Now is this world to be judged; now the Prince of this world will be expelled.

³⁰ I will no longer talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me;

¹⁸ If the world hates you, remember it hated me first. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.

¹¹ of judgment, because the Prince of this world has been judged.

²⁸ Yes, as they disdained to acknowledge God any longer, God has given them up to a reprobate instinct, for the perpetration of what is improper, ²⁹ till they are filled with all manner of wickedness, depravity, lust, and viciousness, filled to the brim with envy, murder, quarrels, intrigues, and malignity — slanderers, ³⁰ defamers, loathed by God, outrageous, haughty, boastful, inventive in evil, disobedient to parents, ³¹ devoid of conscience, false to their word, callous, merciless; ³² though they know God's decree that people who practise such vice deserve death, they not only do it themselves but applaud those who practise it.

⁹ Well now, are we Jews in a better position? Not at all. I have already charged all, Jews as well as Greeks, with being under sin — ¹⁰ as it is written, None is righteous, no, not one; ¹¹ no one understands, no one seeks for God. ¹² All have swerved, one and all have gone wrong, no one does good, not a single one. ¹³ Their throat is an open grave, they are treacherous with their tongues, the venom of an asp lies under their lips. ¹⁴ Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness, ¹⁵ their feet are swift for bloodshed, ¹⁶ their ways bring destruction and calamity, ¹⁷ they know nothing of the way of peace; ¹⁸ there is no reverence for God before their eyes.

¹⁶ it is this Spirit testifying along with our own spirit that we are children of God;

¹² My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.

⁴ there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.

¹ I know that if this earthly tent of mine is taken down, I get a home from God, made by no human hands, eternal in the heavens.

⁴ who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil world — by the will of our God and Father,

² in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air — the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience

¹² and this is why I am suffering. Still, I am not ashamed of it; I know whom I have trusted and I am certain he is able to keep what I have put into his hands till the great Day.

³ For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

⁴ (Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.

¹⁴ We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death.

²⁴ he who obeys his commands remains within him — and He remains within him. And this is how we may be sure he remains within us, by means of the Spirit he has given us.

⁴ My dear children, you belong to God, and you have conquered all such, for He who is within you is greater than he who is in the world. ⁵ They belong to the world, therefore they speak as inspired by the world, and the world listens to them: ⁶ we belong to God — he who knows God listens to us, he who does not belong to God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

¹⁰ He who believes in the Son of God possesses that testimony within himself; he who will not believe God, has made God a liar by refusing to believe the testimony which God has borne to his Son.

¹³ I have written in this way to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may be sure you have life eternal.

¹⁸ We know that anyone who is born of God does not sin; He who was born of God preserves him, and the evil One never catches him.

²⁰ We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us insight to know Him who is the Real God; and we are in Him who is real, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the real God, this is life eternal.

⁹ So the huge dragon was thrown down — that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, the seducer of the whole world — thrown down to the earth, and his angels thrown down along with him.

⁷ He was allowed to wage war on the saints and to conquer them, and given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation; ⁸ and all the dwellers on earth will be his worshippers, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life.

³ flinging him into the abyss and shutting and sealing it on the top of him, to prevent him seducing the nations again until the thousand years were completed — after which he has to be released for a little while.

⁷ But when the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison, ⁸ and he will emerge to seduce the nations at the four corners of the earth, even Gog and Magog, mustering them for the fray. Their number was like the sand of the sea,