17. And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but the one doing the desire of Elohim remains forever.
18. Little children, it is the last hour. And as you have heard that the anti-messiah is coming, even now many anti-messiahs have come. This is how we know that it is the last hour.
19. They went out from us, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have stayed with us – but in order that it might be made manifest that none of them were of us.
20. And you have an anointing from the Set-apart One, and you know all.
21. I did not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no falsehood is of the truth.
22. Who is the liar, except the one denying that יהושע is the Messiah? This is the anti-messiah, the one denying the Father and the Son.
23. No one denying the Son has the Father. The one confessing the Son has the Father as well.
24. As for you, let that stay in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning stays in you, you also shall stay in the Son and in the Father.
25. And this is the promise that He has promised us: everlasting life.