For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.