²² Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.^{(A) 23} No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.^(B)

²⁴ As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning^(C) remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.^(D)