The Daily Audio Bible

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. ²⁶ I wrote these things to you concerning the ones deceiving you. ²⁷ And the Anointing which you received from Him is abiding in you. And you have no need that anyone should be teaching^[i] you; but as His Anointing is teaching you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it^[j] taught you, be abiding^[k] in it^[l].

Abide In Christ So That If He Appears You May Have Confidence And Not Shame

²⁸ And now little-children, be abiding^[m] in Him so that if He appears, we may have confidence and not be put-to-shame^[n] by Him at His coming.

Abiding Means Doing Righteousness, Which Characterizes All Those Born From God

²⁹ If you know^[o] that He^[p] is righteous, you know that everyone also doing righteousness has been born^[q] from Him. 3 ¹ See what-kind-of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God! And we are! For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. ² Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet appeared^[r]. We know that if He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. ³ And everyone having this hope in^[s] Him is purifying himself, just as that One is pure. ⁴ Everyone doing sin also is doing lawlessness. Indeed sin is lawlessness. ⁵ And you know that that One appeared in order that He might take-away sins. And there is no sin in Him. ⁶ Everyone abiding in Him is not sinning^[t]. Everyone sinning has not seen Him nor known Him.