his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows
not where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

5 [2:12]I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven
on account of his name. [2:13]I write to you, fathers, because you have
known him that is from the beginning. I write to you, young men,
because you have overcome the evil one. I wrote to you, little
children, because you have known the Father. [2:14]I wrote to you,
fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I wrote
to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God
continues in you, and you have overcome the evil one. [2:15]Love not
the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the
love of the Father is not in him; [2:16]for all that is in the world,
the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of
life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. [2:17]And the world
passes away, and its desires; but he that does the will of God
continues for ever.

6 [2:18]Little children, it is the last time; and as you heard that
antichrist is coming, even now many have become anti-christs; whence we
know that it is the last time. [2:19]They went out from us, but they
were not of us; for if they had been of us they would have continued
with us; but [they went out from us] that they might be manifest that
they are not all of us. [2:20]And you have an anointing from the Holy
One, and know all things. [2:21]I have not written to you because you
know not the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of
the truth. [2:22]Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the
Christ? This is the anti-christ, [the man that] denies the Father and
the Son. [2:23]No one that denies the Son has the Father; he that
confesses the Son has the Father also. [2:24]Let that which you heard
from the beginning continue in you. If that which you heard from the
beginning continues in you, you also shall continue in the Son and in
the Father. [2:25]And this is the promise which he promised us, the
eternal life.

7 [2:26]I have written these things to you concerning those who deceive
you. [2:27]And the anointing which you received from him continues in
you, and you have no need that any one should teach you; but as his
anointing teaches you of all things, and is true and is not a lie, even
as it has taught you, continue in him.

8 [2:28]And now, little children, continue in him,