1 John 2:13

First Nations Version

I write to you elders because you have known the one who was there from the beginning. I write to you young ones because you have won the victory over the evil trickster.

Cross References

John 14:7

To know me is to know my Father, so from now on you know him and have seen him.”

1 John 2:14

I have written to you children because you have known the Father, who is the Great Spirit. I have written to you elders because you have known Creator Sets Free (Jesus), the one who was there from the beginning. I have written to you young ones because you are strong, with Creator’s message firmly planted in your hearts, and you have won the victory over the evil trickster.

1 John 4:4

Much-loved children, you have been born of Creator and have won the victory over these false prophets. For the Spirit in you is much greater than the spirit in the world.

1 John 1:1

There is one who has existed from the beginning. We heard his story. We saw him with our own eyes. We stared in wonder at him and touched him with our own hands. He is the one we call the Word of Life.

Luke 10:22

He then turned to the seventy who walked the road with him and said, “My Father has put everything into my hands. Only the Father knows the Son, and only the Son knows the Father. No one can truly know the Father in his fullness unless the Son makes him known.”

John 17:3

This life comes from knowing you, the only true and Great Spirit, and from knowing the Chosen One, Creator Sets Free (Jesus), the one you have sent into this world.

1 John 5:18

We know that all who have the Great Spirit as their Father do not continue to walk in broken ways. They are kept safe by the Son, who fully represents his Father, and the evil one cannot harm them.

1 John 3:12

Do not be like Spear Maker (Cain), who gave himself to the ways of the evil trickster and killed his own brother. Why did he kill him? Because what he was doing was wrong, and what his brother was doing was right.

Matthew 11:27

“My Father has put everything into my hands,” he said with a solemn voice. “Only the Father knows the Son and only the Son knows the Father. No one can know the Father in his fullness unless the Son makes him known.” Then he lifted his eyes to the horizon as if he were speaking to all the world.

1 John 5:20

We also know that the Son of the Great Spirit has come. He has given us a way to know the True One. It is through his Son, Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One, that we are in harmony with the True One. This is the one true Great Spirit and the life of the world to come that never fades away, full of beauty and harmony.

1 John 2:12

I write to you children because you have been released from your broken ways through the name of Creator Sets Free (Jesus).

1 John 2:1

My much-loved children, I am writing these things to you so you will not walk a path of broken ways. But if anyone does, we have one who represents us before our Father the Great Spirit. He is Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One, who has always done what is right.

Titus 2:6

In the same manner, urge the young men to be self-disciplined in every way.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For the same Great Spirit who told light to shine out of darkness has shined his light into our hearts. His light helps us to see the beauty of the Great Spirit in the face of Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One.

John 16:3

all because they do not know me or my Father.

John 14:9

“Friend of Horses (Philip),” Creator Sets Free (Jesus) said, “how long have you walked with me, and still you do not know me? How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? The ones who have seen me have seen the Father.

John 8:19

“Where is your Father?” they said back to him. “You do not know me or my Father,” he told them. “If you knew me, you would know who my Father is.”

Matthew 13:38

“The garden is all the nations of the world. The good seeds are the children of the good road. The weeds are the children of the worthless ways of the world,

Matthew 13:19

“The seed in this story is the message from the Great Spirit about his good road. “The seed planted on the village pathway represents the ones who hear but do not understand the message. The evil trickster sneaks up and snatches it from their hearts.

1 Timothy 5:1

Never speak sharp words to a man who is your elder. Instead, speak respectfully to him as to a father. Speak to the younger men as brothers,

John 17:21

I pray that all who walk with me will be joined together as one, in the same way that you, Father, are in me and I am in you—that they may be one in us. This is how the world will believe that you have sent me.

Matthew 5:37

Your simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ is enough. To say more is to speak with a forked tongue like the evil trickster snake.

John 16:33

“I have told you all these things so you will have my peace. This world is full of sorrow, pain and trouble, but have strong hearts, for I have defeated the world.”

Revelation 2:7

Let the one who has ears hear and do what the Spirit is saying to the sacred families. To the ones who win the victory, I will give them fruit to eat from the tree of life that grows in Creator’s Beautiful Garden.

Revelation 12:11

Creator’s holy ones won the victory over him by the lifeblood shed by the Lamb and by boldly telling his story, and, when faced with death, they loved him more than they loved their own lives.