1 John 2:12-22

12 I am writing to you, little children, because ¹your sins are forgiven for his name's sake.

13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know ²him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because ³you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because ⁴you know the Father.

14 I write to you, fathers, because you know ⁵him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because ⁶you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Do Not Love the World

15 ⁷Do not love the world or the things in the world. ⁸If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

16 For all that is in the world--⁹the desires of the flesh and ¹⁰the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions--is not from the Father but is from the world.

17 And ¹¹the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Warning Concerning Antichrists

18 Children, ¹²it is the last hour, and as you have heard that ¹³antichrist is coming, so now ¹⁴many antichrists have come. ¹⁵Therefore we know that it is the last hour.

19 ¹⁶They went out from us, but they were not of us; for ¹⁷if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, ¹⁸that it might become plain that they all are not of us.

20 But you have been ¹⁹anointed by ²⁰the Holy One, and ²¹you all have knowledge.^[a]

21 I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

22 Who is the liar but ²²he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is ²³the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

Cross References

• 1. Luke 24:47; Acts 10:43; Acts 13:38
• 2. [1 John 1:1]
• 3. Ephesians 6:10; [1 John 5:4, 5]
• 4. John 14:7
• 5. [See ver. 13 above]
• 6. [See ver. 13 above]
• 7. [Romans 12:2; 2 Timothy 4:10]
• 8. See James 4:4
• 9. Romans 13:14; Ephesians 2:3; 1 Peter 4:2; 2 Peter 2:18
• 10. Ecclesiastes 4:8; Ecclesiastes 5:11
• 11. See 1 Corinthians 7:31
• 12. [2 Timothy 3:1; James 5:3; 2 Peter 3:3; Jude 18]
• 13. ver. 22; 1 John 4:3; 2 John 7; [Matthew 24:5, 24]
• 14. [1 John 4:1; Matthew 24:5]
• 15. 1 Timothy 4:1
• 16. Deuteronomy 13:13; Acts 20:30
• 17. See John 17:12
• 18. 1 Corinthians 11:19
• 19. ver. 27; [2 Corinthians 1:21]
• 20. See Mark 1:24
• 21. ver. 27; See John 14:26
• 22. 1 John 4:3; 2 John 7
• 23. [See ver. 18 above]

Footnotes

• [a]. Some manuscripts you know everything