2: 18.

7.

Little children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen.

And from this we

They went out

come to know it is the last hour.

For if they had

from us, but they were not of us. been of us they would have continued with us. But they went out so that it might be made clear that they are not all of us. And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know everything. I have not written to you because you did not know the truth, but because you know it and because no lie is of the truth.

Who is the liar, if not he who keeps denying that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, that is, he who keeps denying the Father and the Son. Whoever keeps denying the Son has not even the Father. He who keeps confessing the Son has the Father also. As for you, let what you heard from the beginning continue in you. If what you heard from the beginning continues in you, you also will continue in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise which he promised us, the life which is eternal.

2:26.

These things have I written to you about those who are trying to lead you astray. And as for you, the anointing which you received from him continues in you and you do not need any one to teach you. But as his anointing keeps teaching you about everything, so is it true and is no lie. And just as it taught you, continue in him. And now, little children, continue in him, so that, if he shall be made known, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

(God is Love.)

If you know he is good you are acquainted with the fact that every one who keeps doing good has been begotten by him.

See what amazing love the Father has bestowed on us so that we may be called the children of God, and we are children. For this reason the world is not acquainted with us because it never became acquainted with him. Dear friends, now are we - children of God, and it is not yet made clear what we shall be. We know that if it shall be made clear, we shall be like him. For we shall see him And whoever has this hope set on him keeps purifying himself just as he is pure.

just as he is.

3: 4.

Whoever keeps sinning keeps acting lawlessly, and sin is lawlessness. And we know that he was made known so that he might take away our sins, and in him is no sin. Whoever continues in him does not keep sinning. Whoever keeps sinning has never seen him nor become acquainted with him. Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who keeps doing what is good is good, just as he is good. He who keeps sinning is of the devil. For from the beginning the devil has been sinning and keeps on sinning. It was for this purpose the Son of God was made known, that is, to undo the works of the devil.

Whoever has been begotten by God does not keep sinning, because his seed continues in him, and he cannot keep sinning, because he has been begotten by God. It is in this way the children of God are made known and the children of the devil. Whoever does not keep doing good is not of God, nor is he who does not keep loving his brother. For the message which you heard from the beginning is this, that we should love each other. Not like Cain was of the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil and his brother's good.

3: 13.

2.

Do not wonder, brothers, if the world keeps hating you. We know we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love continues in death. Whoever is a hater of his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life continuing in him. It was in this way we came to know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought But who

to lay down our lives for the brothers. ever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and has no pity for him, how does the love of God continue in him? Little children, let us not keep loving in word, nor with the tongue, but in deed and truth.

In this way we shall come to know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him. For if our heart condemns us, it is plain that God is greater than our heart and knows everything. Dear friends, if our heart does not condemn us, we have boldness towards God. And whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what is pleasing in his sight. And his commandment is this, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love each other, just as he gave us commandment. And he who keeps his commandments con

tinues in him, and he in him.

3: 24.

And in this way

we get to know that he is continuing in us, that is, from the Spirit which he gave us.

3.

Dear brothers, do not believe every spirit, but put the spirits to the test to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

In this way we get to know the Spirit of God. Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. And every spirit who does not confess Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist you heard is coming, and it is now already in the world.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. They are from the world. For this reason they keep talking from the worldly point of view and the world keeps listening to them.

He who is learning to know God keeps listening

to us,

He who is not from God does not keep listening to us.

From this we keep getting to know the spirit of truth

And the spirit of error.