12. I write to you, children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
13. I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
14. I have written to you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
15. Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him;
16. because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17. And the world is passing, and its lust, but he that does the will of God abides for eternity.
18. Little children, it is the last hour, and, according as ye have heard that antichrist comes, even now there have come many antichrists, whence we know that it is the last hour.
19. They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have surely remained with us, but that they might be made manifest that none are of us.
20. And ye have the unction from the holy one, and ye know all things.
21. I have not written to you because ye do not know the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
22. Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
23. Whoever denies the Son has not the Father either; he who confesses the Son has the Father also.