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1 John 2:21

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I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

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1 John 2:21 in other translations

I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

1 John 2:21 · American Standard Version

1 John 2:21 in context

  1. 19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
  2. 20You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
  3. 21I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
  4. 22Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
  5. 23Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.