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. 21 I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. 22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

18 孩子们哪，现在是末后的时期了。正如你们听说过敌基督的要来，现在确实已经有许多敌基督的出现了；故此我们知道，现在是末后的时期了。 19 他们从我们中间出去，但他们本来就不属于我们，因为他们如果属于我们，就会留下与我们在一起；不过这样就显明出，他们都不属于我们。20 至于你们，你们从那位圣者领受了恩膏，并且你们大家都已经知道了这事。21 我写了信给你们，不是因为你们不认识真理，而是因为你们已经认识了真理，又因为一切虚假都不是出于真理。 22 谁是说谎者呢？难道不是那否认耶稣是基督的吗？那否认父和子的，这个人就是敌基督的。 23 所有否认子的，就没有父；那承认子的，连父也有了。