18 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.
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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.
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But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.[a]
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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.