1 John 2:18 Explained in Context

Verse 18. ¹⁸ Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

Verse 19. ¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

Verse 20. ²⁰ But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

Verse 21. ²¹ I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

Verse 22. ²² Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

Verse 23. ²³ Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

Verse 24. ²⁴ Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

Verse 25. ²⁵ And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

Verse 26. ²⁶ These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

Verse 27. ²⁷ But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.