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.
29. If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone that does righteousness is born of him.