GOD'S WORD Translation GW
New International Version NIV
18 Children, it's the end of time. You've heard that an antichrist is coming. Certainly, many antichrists are already here. That's how we know it's the end of time.
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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.
19 They left us. However, they were never really part of us. If they had been, they would have stayed with us. But by leaving they made it clear that none of them were part of us.
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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.
20 The Holy One has anointed you, so all of you have knowledge.
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But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
21 I'm writing to you because you know the truth, not because you don't know the truth. You know that no lie ever comes from the truth.
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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.
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