17. Every kind of wrongdoing is sin, yet there are sins that don’t lead to death.
18. We know that those who have been born from God don’t go on sinning. Rather, the Son of God protects them, and the evil one can’t harm them.
19. We know that we are from God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
20. We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we know the real God. We are in the one who is real, his Son Jesus Christ. This Jesus Christ is the real God and eternal life.
21. Dear children, guard yourselves from false gods.