¹⁸Little children, it is the last hour, and, according as ye have heard that antichrist comes, even now there have come many antichrists, whence we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have surely remained with us, but that they might be made manifest that none are of us.

²⁰And ye have the unction from the holy one, and ye know all things. ²¹I have not written to you because ye do not know the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. ²²Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. ²³Whoever denies the Son has not the Father either; he who confesses the Son has the Father also. ²⁴As for you let that which ye have heard from the beginning abide in you: if what ye have heard from the beginning abides in you, ye also shall abide in the Son and in the Father. ²⁵And this is the promise which he has promised us, life eternal. ²⁶These things have I written to you concerning those who lead you astray: ²⁷and yourselves, the unction which ye have received from him abides in you, and ye have not need that any one should teach you; but as the same unction teaches you as to all things, and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, ye shall abide in him.

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1 John 2:24–25: Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.

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