18. Little children, it is the last time: and as you have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; by which we know that it is the last time.
19. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
20. But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.
21. I have not written unto you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
22. Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son.
23. Whosoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father: [but] he that confesses the Son has the Father also.
24. Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, you also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
25. And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal life.
26. These things have I written unto you concerning them that deceive you.
27. But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him.
28. And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.