New Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 John 2:21
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I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth.
BSB text & permissions
I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
KJV text & permissions
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.
WEB text & permissions
ASVAmerican Standard Version
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.
ASV text & permissions
I did not write to you⁺ because you⁺ do not know the truth, but because you⁺ know it, and because any lie is not of the truth.
BLB text & permissions
READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
1 John 2
19 They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
20 You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
21 I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth.
22 Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.
23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.
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