1 John 2:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Warning About False Teachers Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. We know from this that it is the last hour.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Παιδία, ἐσχάτη ὥρα ἐστίν: καὶ καθὼς ἠκούσατε ὅτι ὁ ἀντίχριστος ἔρχεται, καὶ νῦν ἀντίχριστοι πολλοὶ γεγόνασιν· ὅθεν γινώσκομεν ὅτι ἐσχάτη ὥρα ἐστίν.

Transliteration

Paidia, eschatē hōra estin: and just as you ēkousate that the antichristos erchetai, and now antichristoi polloi gegonasin; from which we ginōskomen that eschatē hōra estin.

Grammar Details

• *Paidia*: vocative, neuter, plural - children/young ones
• *eschatē*: nominative, feminine, singular - last/final
• *hōra*: nominative, feminine, singular - hour/time
• *estin*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - is/exists
• *ēkousate*: aorist, indicative, active, 2nd person plural - you heard
• *antichristos*: nominative, masculine, singular - antichrist
• *erchetai*: present, indicative, middle/passive, 3rd person singular - is coming
• *antichristoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - antichrists
• *polloi*: nominative, masculine, plural - many
• *gegonasin*: perfect, indicative, active, 3rd person plural - have become/have arisen
• *ginōskomen*: present, indicative, active, 1st person plural - we know

Word Meanings

• *Paidia*: children/young ones/little ones
• *eschatē hōra*: last hour/final time/end time
• *ēkousate*: heard/listened to/learned
• *antichristos*: antichrist/opponent of Christ
• *erchetai*: is coming/is appearing/is arriving
• *antichristoi*: antichrists/opponents of Christ
• *gegonasin*: have become/have arisen/have appeared/have come into existence
• *ginōskomen*: know/understand/recognize/perceive

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 4:3 : 3 but every spirit that refuses to confess Jesus, that spirit is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.
• 1 John 2:22 : 22 Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.
• 2 John 1:7 : 7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!
• Matt 24:5 : 5 For many will come in my name, saying,‘I am the Christ,’ and they will mislead many.
• Matt 24:24 : 24 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
• 1 John 4:1 : 1 Testing the Spirits Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
• Jude 1:18 : 18 For they said to you,“In the end time there will come scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires.”
• 2 Pet 3:3 : 3 Above all, understand this: In the last days blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges
• Matt 24:11 : 11 And many false prophets will appear and deceive many,
• Mark 13:6 : 6 Many will come in my name, saying,‘I am he,’ and they will mislead many.
• Mark 13:21-22 : 21 Then if anyone says to you,‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe him. 22 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, the elect.
• Acts 20:29-30 : 29 I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.
• 2 Thess 2:3-9 : 3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not arrive until the rebellion comes and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction. 4 He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, and as a result he takes his seat in God’s temple, displaying himself as God. 5 Surely you recall that I used to tell you these things while I was still with you. 6 And so you know what holds him back, so that he will be revealed in his own time. 7 For the hidden power of lawlessness is already at work. However, the one who holds him back will do so until he is taken out of the way, 8 and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy by the breath of his mouth and wipe out by the manifestation of his arrival. 9 The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan’s working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders, 10 and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved. 11 Consequently God sends on them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false. 12 And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.
• 1 Tim 4:1-3 : 1 Timothy’s Ministry in the Later Times Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings, 2 influenced by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared. 3 They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
• 2 Tim 3:1-6 : 1 Ministry in the Last Days But understand this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God. 5 They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these. 6 For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.
• 2 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 For there will be a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things. 4 And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths.
• Heb 1:2 : 2 in these last days he has spoken to us in a son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he created the world.
• 1 Pet 1:5 : 5 who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• 1 Pet 1:20 : 20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.
• 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 The False Teachers’ Ungodly Lifestyle But false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. These false teachers will infiltrate your midst with destructive heresies, even to the point of denying the Master who bought them. As a result, they will bring swift destruction on themselves.
• John 21:5 : 5 So Jesus said to them,“Children, you don’t have any fish, do you?” They replied,“No.”