1 John 2:18-20

Warnings Against Denying the Son

18 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 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 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.^[a]

Cross References

• 1. S Romans 13:11
• 2. ver 22; 1 John 4:3; 2 John 7
• 3. 1 John 4:1
• 4. Acts 20:30
• 5. 1 Corinthians 11:19
• 6. ver 27; 2 Corinthians 1:21
• 7. S Mark 1:24
• 8. Jeremiah 31:34; Matthew 13:11; John 14:26

Footnotes

• [a] Some manuscripts "and you know all things"