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.