1 John 2:18-21

Warning Concerning Antichrists

18 Children, ¹it is the last hour, and as you have heard that ²antichrist is coming, so now ³many antichrists have come. ⁴Therefore we know that it is the last hour.

19 ⁵They went out from us, but they were not of us; for ⁶if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, ⁷that it might become plain that they all are not of us.

20 But you have been ⁸anointed by ⁹the Holy One, and ¹⁰you 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.

Cross References

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

Footnotes

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