18Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that antichrist comes, so now many antichrists have come to be; therefore we know that it is the last hour.19They went out from us, but they were not from us; for if they had been from us, they would have remained with us; but so that they might be revealed that they are not all from us.20And you have an anointing from the holy one, and you all know.21I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth.22Who is the liar if not the one denying that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist, the one denying the father and the son.23Everyone who denies the son does not have the father; the one who confesses the son also has the father.24As 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 remain in the Son and in the Father.25And this is the promise which he promised to us: the eternal life.26These things I wrote to you concerning those leading you astray.27And you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you, but as his anointing teaches you about all things and is true and is not a lie, and just as it taught you, remain in him.