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.
24. As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
25. Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.
26. These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you.