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18 Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this 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 really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not 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 an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.
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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 because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because 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.
22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.
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Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.
23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.
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No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
24 As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
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As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
25 This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life.
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And this is what he promised us—eternal life.
26 These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you.
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I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray.
27 As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to 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 abide in Him.
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As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.
28 Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming.
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And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming.
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