12. I write to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of His Name.
13. I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father.
14. I wrote to you, fathers, because you have known Him from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because you are strong, and the Word of Elohim stays in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.
15. Do not love the world nor that which is in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16. Because all that is in the world – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life – is not of the Father but is of the world.
17. And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but the one doing the desire of Elohim remains forever.
18. Little children, it is the last hour. And as you have heard that the anti-messiah is coming, even now many anti-messiahs have come. This is how we know that it is the last hour.
19. They went out from us, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have stayed with us – but in order that it might be made manifest that none of them were of us.
20. And you have an anointing from the Set-apart One, and you know all.
21. I did not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no falsehood is of the truth.
22. Who is the liar, except the one denying that יהושע is the Messiah? This is the anti-messiah, the one denying the Father and the Son.
23. No one denying the Son has the Father. The one confessing the Son has the Father as well.