²⁰ But you have been anointed by [you hold a sacred appointment from, you have been given an unction from] the Holy One, and you all know [the Truth] or you know all things.

²¹ I write to you not because you are ignorant and do not perceive and know the Truth, but because you do perceive and know it, and [know positively] that nothing false (no deception, no lie) is of the Truth.

²² Who is [such a] liar as he who denies that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah)? He is the antichrist (the antagonist of Christ), who [^[a]habitually] denies and refuses to acknowledge the Father and the Son.

²³ No one who [^[b]habitually] denies (disowns) the Son ^[c]even has the Father. Whoever confesses (acknowledges and has) the Son has the Father also.

²⁴ As for you, keep in your hearts what you have heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the first dwells and remains in you, then you will dwell in the Son and in the Father [always].

²⁵ And this is what He Himself has promised us—the life, the eternal [life].

²⁶ I write this to you with reference to those who would deceive you [seduce and lead you astray].

²⁷ But as for you, the anointing (the sacred appointment, the unction) which you received from Him abides [^[d]permanently] in you; [so] then you have no need that anyone should instruct you. But just as His anointing teaches you concerning everything and is true and is no falsehood, so you must abide in (live in, never depart from) Him [being ^[e]rooted in Him, knit to Him], just as [His anointing] has taught you [to do].