16. For everything in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the boasting of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
17. The world is passing away along with its desire, but the one who does the will of God abides forever.
18. Children, it is the last hour. Just as you heard that the anti-messiah is coming, even now many anti-messiahs have come—by this we know that it is the last hour.
19. They left us, but they didn’t really belong to us. If they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they left us so it became clear that none of them belongs to us.
20. But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.
21. I have not written you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth.