1 John 2:18-29

Warning Concerning Antichrists

18Children, ait is the last hour, and as you have heard that bantichrist is coming, so now cmany antichrists have come. dTherefore we know that it is the last hour. 19 eThey went out from us, but they were not of us; for fif they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, gthat it might become plain that they all are not of us. 20But you have been hanointed by ithe Holy One, and jyou all have knowledge.
Some manuscripts you know everything
21I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. 22Who is the liar but lhe who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is mthe antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. 23 nNo one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. 24Let owhat you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then pyou too will abide in the Son and in the Father. 25And this is the promise that he made to us
Some manuscripts you
reternal life.

26I write these things to you about sthose who are trying to deceive you. 27But tthe anointing that you received from him abides in you, and uyou have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and vis true, and is no liejust as it has taught you, abide in him.

Children of God

28And now, little children, abide in him, so that wwhen he appears xwe may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his ycoming. 29If you know that zhe is righteous, you may be sure that aaeveryone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

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