As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
"John obviously uses slight irony here. . . . John means that what he is urging on them is fairly self-evident . . ." [Note: Yarbrough, pp. 166-67.] 