1 John 2:17-27

17 And ¹the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Warning Concerning Antichrists

18 Children, ²it is the last hour, and as you have heard that ³antichrist is coming, so now ⁴many antichrists have come. ⁵Therefore we know that it is the last hour.

19 ⁶They went out from us, but they were not of us; for ⁷if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, ⁸that it might become plain that they all are not of us.

20 But you have been ⁹anointed by ¹⁰the Holy One, and ¹¹you 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 ¹²he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is ¹³the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

23 ¹⁴No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.

24 Let ¹⁵what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then ¹⁶you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.

25 And this is the promise that he made to us^[b]— ¹⁷eternal life.

26 I write these things to you about ¹⁸those who are trying to deceive you.

27 But ¹⁹the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and ²⁰you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and ²¹is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

Cross References

• 1. 2:17 See 1 Cor. 7:31
• 2. 2:18 [2 Tim. 3:1; James 5:3; 2 Pet. 3:3; Jude 18]
• 3. 2:18 ver. 22; ch. 4:3; 2 John 7; [Matt. 24:5, 24]
• 4. 2:18 [ch. 4:1; Matt. 24:5]
• 5. 2:18 1 Tim. 4:1
• 6. 2:19 Deut. 13:13; Acts 20:30
• 7. 2:19 See John 17:12
• 8. 2:19 1 Cor. 11:19
• 9. 2:20 ver. 27; [2 Cor. 1:21]
• 10. 2:20 See Mark 1:24
• 11. 2:20 ver. 27; See John 14:26
• 12. 2:22 ch. 4:3; 2 John 7
• 13. 2:22 [See ver. 18 above]
• 14. 2:23 ch. 4:15; 5:1; 2 John 9
• 15. 2:24 ch. 3:11; 2 John 6
• 16. 2:24 [John 14:23]; See ch. 1:3
• 17. 2:25 John 17:2
• 18. 2:26 ch. 3:7; 2 John 7
• 19. 2:27 ver. 20
• 20. 2:27 Jer. 31:34; Heb. 8:11
• 21. 2:27 John 14:17

Footnotes

• [a] 2:20 Some manuscripts 'you know everything'
• [b] 2:25 Some manuscripts 'you'