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.
26. I have written this to you concerning those who lead you astray.
27. But the anointing which you have received from Him stays in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as the same anointing does teach you concerning all, and is true, and is no falsehood, and even as it has taught you, you stay in Him.
28. And now, little children, stay in Him, so that when He appears, we might have boldness and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.
29. If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone doing righteousness has been born of Him.