Holman Christian Standard Bible

1 John 2:19-23 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

19. They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. However, they went out so that it might be made clear that none of them belongs to us.

20. But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you have knowledge.

21. I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie comes from the truth.

22. Who is the liar, if not the one who denies that Jesus is the Messiah? This one is the antichrist: the one who denies the Father and the Son.

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