2:12 I am writing to you, 10 little children, that 11 your sins have been forgiven because of his 12 name. 2:13 I am writing to you, fathers, that 13 you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, that 14 you have conquered the evil one. 15 2:14 I have written to you, children, that 16 you have known the Father. 17 I have written to you, fathers, that 18 you have known him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, that 19 you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one.
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) 20 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 21 forever.
2:18 Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists 22 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 23 with us. But 24 they went out from us 25 to demonstrate 26 that all of them do not belong to us. 27
2:20 Nevertheless you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. 28 2:21 I have not written to you that 29 you do not know the truth, but that 30 you do know it, and that 31 no lie is of the truth. 2:22 Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ 32 ? 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. 33
2:24 As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain 34 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 35 is the promise that he 36 himself made to 37 us: eternal life. 38 2:26 These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you. 39
2:27 Now as for you, the anointing 40 that you received from him 41 resides 42 in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his 43 anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as 44 it 45 has taught you, you reside 46 in him.
2:28 And now, little children, remain 47 in him, 48 so that when 49 he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back. 50 2:29 If you know that he is righteous, you also know 51 that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered 52 by him.