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.
25. And this is the promise that he made us: eternal life.
26. I write you these things about those who would deceive you.
27. As for you, the anointing that you received from him remains in you, so that you do not need anyone to teach you. But his anointing teaches you about everything and is true and not false; just as it taught you, remain in him.
28. And now, children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not be put to shame by him at his coming.
29. If you consider that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who acts in righteousness is begotten by him.