¹⁸Children, ^ait is the last hour; and just as you heard that ^bantichrist is coming, ^ceven now many antichrists have appeared. From this we know that it is the last hour.

¹⁹^aThey went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they were of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, ^bso that ¹it would be manifested that they all are not of us.

²⁰¹But you have an ^aanointing from ^bthe Holy One, and ^cyou all know.

²¹I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but ^abecause you do know it, and ¹because no lie is ^bof the truth.

²²Who is the liar but ^athe one who denies that Jesus is the ¹Christ? This is ^bthe ²antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.

²³^aEveryone who denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.

²⁴As for you, let that which you heard ^afrom the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also ^bwill abide in the Son and in the Father.

²⁵^aAnd this is the promise which He Himself ¹made to us: eternal life.

²⁶These things I have written to you about those who are trying to ^adeceive you.

²⁷And as for you, the ^aanointing whom you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as His anointing ^bteaches you about all things, and is ^ctrue and is not a lie, and just as He has taught you, ¹abide 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

1Lit they would be revealed
1Lit And
1Or know that
1Or Anointed One, cf. 2:27
2Or one against the Anointed One, cf. 2:27
1Lit promised us
1Or you abide in Him; Gr indicative

Cross references

a Rom 13:11; 1 Tim 4:1; 1 Pet 4:7
b Matt 24:5, 24; 1 John 2:22; 4:3; 2 John 7
c Mark 13:22; 1 John 4:1, 3
a Acts 20:30
b 1 Cor 11:19
a 2 Cor 1:21; 1 John 2:27
b Mark 1:24; Acts 10:38
c Prov 28:5; Matt 13:11; John 14:26; 1 Cor 2:15f; 1 John 2:27
a James 1:19; 2 Pet 1:12; Jude 5
b John 8:44; 18:37; 1 John 3:19
a 1 John 4:3; 2 John 7
b Matt 24:5, 24; 1 John 2:18; 4:3; 2 John 7
a John 8:19; 16:3; 17:3; 1 John 4:15; 5:1; 2 John 9
a 1 John 2:7
b John 14:23; 1 John 1:3; 2 John 9
a John 3:15; 6:40; 1 John 1:2
a 1 John 3:7; 2 John 7
a John 14:16; 1 John 2:20
b John 14:26; 1 Cor 2:12; 1 Thess 4:9
c John 14:17