Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.
John again used a three-fold structure at the beginning of this section of the text. He described three signs or marks: of the end (1 John 2:18-19), of the believer (1 John 2:20-23), and of living in the light (1 John 2:24-25). 1 John 2:26-27 recapitulate and develop the revelation in 1 John 2:18-25.