1 John 2:19-27

19 ¹They went out from us, but they were not of us; for ²if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, ³that it might become plain that they all are not of us.

20 But you have been ⁴anointed by ⁵the Holy One, and ⁶you 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 ⁷he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is ⁸the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

23 ⁹No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.

24 Let ¹⁰what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then ¹¹you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.

25 And this is the promise that he made to us^[b]--¹²eternal life.

26 I write these things to you about ¹³those who are trying to deceive you.

27 But ¹⁴the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and ¹⁵you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and ¹⁶is true, and is no lie--just as it has taught you, abide in him.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 13:13; Acts 20:30
• 2. See John 17:12
• 3. 1 Corinthians 11:19
• 4. ver. 27; [2 Corinthians 1:21]
• 5. See Mark 1:24
• 6. ver. 27; See John 14:26
• 7. 1 John 4:3; 2 John 7
• 8. [See ver. 18 above]
• 9. 1 John 4:15; 1 John 5:1; 2 John 9
• 10. 1 John 3:11; 2 John 6
• 11. [John 14:23]; See 1 John 1:3
• 12. John 17:2
• 13. 1 John 3:7; 2 John 7
• 14. ver. 20
• 15. Jeremiah 31:34; Hebrews 8:11
• 16. John 14:17

Footnotes

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