Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Children, Antichrists Have Arisen

¹⁸ Children, it is the last^[a] hour. And just as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen— from which we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of ^[b] us. For if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But they went out in order that they might be made-evident that^[c] they all are not of us.

You Have God’s Anointing And You Know The Truth. Let It Abide In You And You In It

²⁰ And you have an Anointing^[d] from the Holy One, and you all have-knowledge^[e]. ²¹ I did not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that^[f] every lie is not from^[g] the truth. ²² Who is the liar if not the one denying that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist, the one denying the Father and the Son. ²³ Everyone denying the Son does also-not have the Father. The one confessing^[h] the Son also has the Father. ²⁴ Let what you heard from the beginning be abiding in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. ²⁵ And this is the promise which He Himself promised to us: eternal life.