1 John 2:18-26

Goodspeed(i) 18 Children, it is the last hour. You have heard that Antichrist is coming, and many Antichrists have indeed appeared. So we may be sure that it is the last hour. 19 They have gone out from our number, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had, they would have stayed with us. It was to make it clear that none of them really belonged to us that they withdrew. 20 But you have been anointed by the Holy One. You all know the truth; 21 I do not write to you because you do not know it, but because you do know it, and because no lie can come from the truth. 22 Who is such a liar as the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the real Antichrist—the man who disowns the Father and the Son. 23 No one who disowns the Son can have the Father. Whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father too. 24 Keep what you have heard from the beginning in your hearts; then you will always be in union with the Son and the Father. 25 And what he himself has promised us is eternal life. 26 I write you this with reference to those who are trying to mislead you.