Children, it is the last hour. You have learned that 'Antichrist is coming.' Well, but many antichrists have appeared ??which makes us sure it is the last hour.

Who is a liar, if not he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, that denieth the Father as well as the Son;

No one who denies the Son can have the Father; he who confesses the Son has the Father as well.

If you know that He is righteous, you know this as well: Everyone who does what is right has been born of Him.

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And this is how we will know that we are following [God's] truth, and will have assurance [of it] in our hearts and before God [as well].

But every spirit who does not proclaim [this truth about] Jesus is not [speaking] from God. And this [person] represents the spirit of the antichrist [See 2:18-22; II John 7], whom you have heard would come. Well, now he is already here!

well, we do know, we have believed, the love God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

And we get this command from him, that he who loves God is to love his brother as well.