17 And the world is passing away, and its desire,[a] but the one who does the will of God remains forever[b].

Departure of the False Teachers

18 Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen, by which we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But they went out[c], in order that it might be shown that all of them are not of us.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 2:17 Or “and the desire for it”
  2. 1 John 2:17 Literally “for the age”
  3. 1 John 2:19 This is an understood repetition of the phrase “they went out” from the beginning of v. 19