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 Timothy 3:1; James 5:3; 2 Peter 3:3; Jude 18]
• 2. ver. 22; 1 John 4:3; 2 John 7; [Matthew 24:5, 24]
• 3. [1 John 4:1; Matthew 24:5]
• 4. 1 Timothy 4:1
• 5. Deuteronomy 13:13; Acts 20:30
• 6. See John 17:12
• 7. 1 Corinthians 11:19
• 8. ver. 27; [2 Corinthians 1:21]
• 9. See Mark 1:24
• 10. ver. 27; See John 14:26

Footnotes

• [a]. Some manuscripts you know everything