1 John 2:18-22

18 Children, ¹it is the last hour; and just as you heard that ²antichrist is coming, ³even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.

19 ⁴They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, ⁵so that ^[a]it would be shown that they all are not of us.

20 ^[b]But you have an ⁶anointing from ⁷the Holy One, and ⁸you all know.

21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but ⁹because you do know it, and ^[c]because no * lie is ¹⁰of the truth.

22 Who is the liar but ¹¹the one who denies that Jesus is the ^[d]Christ? This is ¹²the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.

Cross References

• 1. Romans 13:11; 1 Timothy 4:1; 1 Peter 4:7
• 2. Matthew 24:5, 24; 1 John 2:22; 1 John 4:3; 2 John 7
• 3. Mark 13:22; 1 John 4:1, 3
• 4. Acts 20:30
• 5. 1 Corinthians 11:19
• 6. 2 Corinthians 1:21; 1 John 2:27
• 7. Mark 1:24; Acts 10:38
• 8. Proverbs 28:5; Matthew 13:11; John 14:26; 1 Corinthians 2:15; 1 John 2:27
• 9. James 1:19; 2 Peter 1:12; Jude 5
• 10. John 8:44; John 18:37; 1 John 3:19
• 11. 1 John 4:3; 2 John 7
• 12. Matthew 24:5, 24; 1 John 2:18; 1 John 4:3; 2 John 7

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "they would be revealed"
• [b]. Lit "And"
• [c]. Or know "that"
• [d]. I.e. Messiah