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Little children, it is the last hour and as you were given word that the Antichrist would come, so now a number of Antichrists have come to you and by this we are certain that it is the last hour.

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They went out from us but they were not of us if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.

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And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.

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I have not sent you this letter because you have no knowledge of what is true, but because you have knowledge, and because that which is false has nothing in common with that which is true.

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Who is false but he who says that Jesus is not the Christ? He is the Antichrist who has no belief in the Father or the Son.

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He who has no belief in the Son has not the Father: he who makes clear his belief in the Son has the Father.

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But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.

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And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life.

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I am writing these things to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way.

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As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.