¹⁸Children, it is the last hour. ^cAnd as you have heard, “Antichrist ^dis coming,” even now many antichrists have come. We know from this that it is the last hour. ¹⁹They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. However, they went out so that it might be made clear that none of them belongs to us.

²⁰But you have an anointing ^efrom the Holy One, ^fand all of you have knowledge. ^g²¹I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie comes from the truth. ²²Who is the liar, if not the one who denies that Jesus is the Messiah? ^hThis one is the antichrist: the one who denies the Father and the Son. ²³No one who denies the Son can have the Father; ⁱhe who confesses the Son has the Father as well. ^j

Remaining with God

²⁴What you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son ^kand in the Father. ^l²⁵And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life. ^m²⁶I have written these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

²⁷The anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you don’t need anyone to teach you. Instead, His anointing teaches you about all things ⁿand is true and is not a lie; just as He has taught you, remain in Him. ^o

Read in Logos

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.

Footnotes

g2:20 Other read and you know all things

Cross references

c2:18 Jn 2:4; 1Pt 4:7
d2:18 Mt 24:5, 24; 1Jn 2:22; 4:3; 2Jn 7
e2:20 2Co 1:21
f2:20 Ps 89:18; Mk 1:24; Ac 10:38
h2:22 Jn 20:31; Ac 18:5; Eph 5:2; 1Jn 5:1
i2:23 Jn 5:23
j2:23 Jn 8:19; 16:3; 17:3; 1Jn 4:15; 5:1; 2Jn 9
k2:24 Jn 15:4–7; 1Jn 2:6, 27–28; 3:6, 24; 4:13, 15–16
l2:24 Jn 10:38; Col 3:3; 1Th 1:1; 1Jn 4:15–16
m2:25 Jn 4:14; 1Tm 4:8; 2Tm 1:1; Ti 1:2
n2:27 Jn 14:26
o2:27 Jn 15:4–7; 1Jn 2:6; 3:6, 24; 4:13, 15–16