Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
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18 Little children, it is the last hour: and as you have heard that Antichrist cometh, even now there are become many Antichrists: whereby we know that it is the last hour.
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Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.
19 They went out from us but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us: but that they may be manifest, that they are not all of us.
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They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
20 But you have the unction from the Holy One and know all things.
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But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
21 I have not written to you as to them that know not the truth, but as to them that know it: and that no lie is of the truth.
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I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth.
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