1 John 2:15-29

Do Not Love the World

15 ¹Do not love the world or the things in the world. ²If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

16 For all that is in the world--³the desires of the flesh and ⁴the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions--is not from the Father but is from the world.

17 And ⁵the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Warning Concerning Antichrists

18 Children, ⁶it is the last hour, and as you have heard that ⁷antichrist is coming, so now ⁸many antichrists have come. ⁹Therefore we know that it is the last hour.

19 ¹⁰They went out from us, but they were not of us; for ¹¹if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, ¹²that it might become plain that they all are not of us.

20 But you have been ¹³anointed by ¹⁴the Holy One, and ¹⁵you 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 ¹⁶he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is ¹⁷the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

23 ¹⁸No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.

24 Let ¹⁹what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then ²⁰you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.

25 And this is the promise that he made to us^[b]--²¹eternal life.

26 I write these things to you about ²²those who are trying to deceive you.

27 But ²³the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and ²⁴you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and ²⁵is true, and is no lie--just as it has taught you, abide in him.

Children of God

28 And now, little children, abide in him, so that ²⁶when he appears ²⁷we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his ²⁸coming.

29 If you know that ²⁹he is righteous, you may be sure that ³⁰everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Cross References

• 1. [Romans 12:2; 2 Timothy 4:10]
• 2. See James 4:4
• 3. Romans 13:14; Ephesians 2:3; 1 Peter 4:2; 2 Peter 2:18
• 4. Ecclesiastes 4:8; Ecclesiastes 5:11
• 5. See 1 Corinthians 7:31
• 6. [2 Timothy 3:1; James 5:3; 2 Peter 3:3; Jude 18]
• 7. ver. 22; 1 John 4:3; 2 John 7; [Matthew 24:5, 24]
• 8. [1 John 4:1; Matthew 24:5]
• 9. 1 Timothy 4:1
• 10. Deuteronomy 13:13; Acts 20:30
• 11. See John 17:12
• 12. 1 Corinthians 11:19
• 13. ver. 27; [2 Corinthians 1:21]
• 14. See Mark 1:24
• 15. ver. 27; See John 14:26
• 16. 1 John 4:3; 2 John 7
• 17. [See ver. 18 above]
• 18. 1 John 4:15; 1 John 5:1; 2 John 9
• 19. 1 John 3:11; 2 John 6
• 20. [John 14:23]; See 1 John 1:3
• 21. John 17:2
• 22. 1 John 3:7; 2 John 7
• 23. ver. 20
• 24. Jeremiah 31:34; Hebrews 8:11
• 25. John 14:17
• 26. 1 John 3:2; [Colossians 3:4]
• 27. 1 John 3:21; 1 John 4:17; 1 John 5:14
• 28. See 1 Thessalonians 2:19
• 29. 1 John 3:7
• 30. 1 John 3:9; 1 John 4:7; 1 John 5:1, 4, 18; 3 John 11

Footnotes

• [a]. Some manuscripts you know everything
• [b]. Some manuscripts you