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.
27. Now as for you, the anointing that you received from him resides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as it has taught you, you reside in him.
28. And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.
29. If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.