New American Standard Bible 2020

1 John 2:18-27

18Children, 1it is the last hour; and just as you heard that 2antichrist is coming, 3even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour. 19 4They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, 5so that 6it would be evident that they all are not of us. 20 7But you have an 8anointing from 9the Holy One, and 10you all know. 21I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but 11because you do know it, and 12because no lie is 13of the truth. 22Who is the liar except 14the one who denies that Jesus is the 15Christ? This is 16the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. 23 17Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also. 24As for you, see that what you heard 18from the beginning remains in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also 19will remain in the Son and in the Father. 25 20This is the promise which He Himself 21made to us: eternal life.

26These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to 22deceive you. 27And as for you, the 23anointing which you received from Him remains in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing 24teaches you about all things, and is 25true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, 26you remain in Him.

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Notes

1. 1 John 2:18 Rom 13:11; 1 Tim 4:1; 1 Pet 4:7 ↩
2. 1 John 2:18 Matt 24:5, 24; 1 John 2:22; 4:3; 2 John 7 ↩
3. 1 John 2:18 Mark 13:22; 1 John 4:1, 3 ↩
4. 1 John 2:19 Acts 20:30 ↩
5. 1 John 2:19 1 Cor 11:19 ↩
6. 1 John 2:19 Lit they would be revealed ↩
7. 1 John 2:20 Lit And ↩
8. 1 John 2:20 2 Cor 1:21; 1 John 2:27 ↩
9. 1 John 2:20 Mark 1:24; Acts 10:38 ↩
10. 1 John 2:20 Prov 28:5; Matt 13:11; John 14:26; 1 Cor 2:15f; 1 John 2:27 ↩
11. 1 John 2:21 James 1:19; 2 Pet 1:12; Jude 5 ↩
12. 1 John 2:21 Or you know that no lie ↩
13. 1 John 2:21 John 8:44; 18:37; 1 John 3:19 ↩
14. 1 John 2:22 1 John 4:3; 2 John 7 ↩
15. 1 John 2:22 I.e., Messiah ↩
16. 1 John 2:22 Matt 24:5, 24; 1 John 2:18; 4:3; 2 John 7 ↩
17. 1 John 2:23 John 8:19; 16:3; 17:3; 1 John 4:15; 5:1; 2 John 9 ↩
18. 1 John 2:24 1 John 2:7 ↩
19. 1 John 2:24 John 14:23; 1 John 1:3; 2 John 9 ↩
20. 1 John 2:25 John 3:15; 6:40; 1 John 1:2 ↩
21. 1 John 2:25 Lit promised us ↩
22. 1 John 2:26 1 John 3:7; 2 John 7 ↩
23. 1 John 2:27 John 14:16; 1 John 2:20 ↩
24. 1 John 2:27 John 14:26; 1 Cor 2:12; 1 Thess 4:9 ↩
25. 1 John 2:27 John 14:17 ↩
26. 1 John 2:27 Or remain in Him (a command) ↩

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