2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 2:16 because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) 1 is not from the Father, but is from the world. 2:17 And the world is passing away with all its desires, but the person who does the will of God remains 2 forever.
2:18 Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists 3 have appeared. We know from this that it is the last hour. 2:19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained 4 with us. But 5 they went out from us 6 to demonstrate 7 that all of them do not belong to us. 8
2:20 Nevertheless you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. 9 2:21 I have not written to you that 10 you do not know the truth, but that 11 you do know it, and that 12 no lie is of the truth. 2:22 Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ 13 ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son. 2:23 Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also. 14
2:24 As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain 15 in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. 2:25 Now this 16 is the promise that he 17 himself made to 18 us: eternal life. 19 2:26 These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you. 20
2:27 Now as for you, the anointing 21 that you received from him 22 resides 23 in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his 24 anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as 25 it 26 has taught you, you reside 27 in him.
2:28 And now, little children, remain 28 in him, 29 so that when 30 he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back. 31 2:29 If you know that he is righteous, you also know 32 that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered 33 by him.