We know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding so that we know ʜɪᴍ who is true. And we are in ʜɪᴍ who is true, in ʜɪꜱ Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the ethnic groups, believed on in the world, and taken up in glory.
The one who does what is sinful is from the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.
Therefore, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ and as one who will share in the glory to be revealed, I exhort the elders among y’all:
For what the law couldn’t do, because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending ʜɪꜱ own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh as a sin offering, ʜᴇ condemned sin in the flesh,
What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of life—