15. Do not love the world or the things of the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16. For all that is in the world, sensual lust, enticement for the eyes, and a pretentious life, is not from the Father but is from the world.
17. Yet the world and its enticement are passing away. But whoever does the will of God remains forever.
18. Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that the antichrist was coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. Thus we know this is the last hour.
19. They went out from us, but they were not really of our number; if they had been, they would have remained with us. Their desertion shows that none of them was of our number.
20. But you have the anointing that comes from the holy one, and you all have knowledge.
21. I write to you not because you do not know the truth but because you do, and because every lie is alien to the truth.
22. Who is the liar? Whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Whoever denies the Father and the Son, this is the antichrist.
23. No one who denies the Son has the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.
24. Let what you heard from the beginning remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.