2:18 Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists ¹  have appeared. We know from this that it is the last hour. 2:19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained ²  with us. But ³  they went out from us ⁴  to demonstrate ⁵  that all of them do not belong to us. ⁶ 

2:20 Nevertheless you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. ⁷  2:21 I have not written to you that ⁸  you do not know the truth, but that ⁹  you do know it, and that ¹⁰  no lie is of the truth. 2:22 Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ ¹¹ ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son. 2:23 Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also. ¹² 

2:24 As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain ¹³  in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. 2:25 Now this ¹⁴  is the promise that he ¹⁵  himself made to ¹⁶  us: eternal life. ¹⁷  2:26 These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you. ¹⁸ 

2:27 Now as for you, the anointing ¹⁹  that you received from him ²⁰  resides ²¹  in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his ²²  anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as ²³  it ²⁴  has taught you, you reside ²⁵  in him.

2:28 And now, little children, remain ²⁶  in him, ²⁷  so that when ²⁸  he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back. ²⁹  2:29 If you know that he is righteous, you also know ³⁰  that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered ³¹  by him.

4:1 Now ¹  the man had marital relations with ²  his wife Eve, and she became pregnant ³  and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, “I have created ⁴  a man just as the Lord did!” ⁵  4:2 Then she gave birth ⁶  to his brother Abel. ⁷  Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground. ⁸ 

4:3 At the designated time ⁹  Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering ¹⁰  to the Lord. 4:4 But Abel brought ¹¹  some of the firstborn of his flock – even the fattest ¹²  of them. And the Lord was pleased with ¹³  Abel and his offering, 4:5 but with Cain and his offering he was not pleased. ¹⁴  So Cain became very angry, ¹⁵  and his expression was downcast. ¹⁶ 

4:6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?