¹⁸Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen, by which we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But they went out^*, in order that it might be shown that all of them are not of us.

²⁰And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. ²¹I have not written to you because^m you do not know the truth, but becauseⁿ you do know it, and because^o every lie is not of the truth. ²²Who is the liar except the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This person is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. ²³Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.

²⁴As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. ²⁵And this is the promise which he himself promised us: eternal life. ²⁶These things I have written to you concerning the ones who are trying to deceive you.

²⁷And as for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you do not have need that anyone teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you reside^* in him.

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

*This is an understood repetition of the phrase “they went out” from the beginning of v. 19
mOr “that”
nOr “that”
oOr “that”
*By form the verb could also be imperative: “just as it has taught you, reside in him”