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.
22. Who is the liar, if not the one who denies that Yeshua is the Messiah? This one is the anti-messiah—the one who denies the Father and the Son.
23. No one who denies the Son has the Father; the one who acknowledges the Son also has the Father.
24. As for you, let what you heard from the beginning remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will continue to live in the Son and in the Father.
25. Now this is the promise that He Himself has promised us—eternal life.
26. I have written you these things about those who are trying to mislead you.
27. As for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as His anointing teaches you about all things—and it is true and not a lie—and just as it has taught you, abide in Him.
28. And now, children, abide in Him, so that when He appears we will have confidence and not be ashamed in His presence at His coming.
29. If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who does what is right is born of Him.