11. But the one who hates his fellow Christian is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
12. I am writing to you, little children, that your sins have been forgiven because of his name.
13. I am writing to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, that you have conquered the evil one.
14. I have written to you, children, that you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, that you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one.
15. Do not love the world or the things 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 desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.
17. And the world is passing away with all its desires, but the person who does the will of God remains forever.
18. Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. We know from this that it is the last hour.
19. They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.
20. Nevertheless you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.
21. I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
22. Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.
23. Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also.