1 John 2:21

I write to you, not because you don’t know the truth, but because you do know it, and because you know that no lie belongs to the truth.

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In The King James Version

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.

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20But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know the truth.

22Who is a liar? Whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Whoever denies the Father and the Son is an antichrist.

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Matthew Henry on 1 John 2:21-28

Concerning Antichrist. ( a. d. 80.) 20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. 21 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. 22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. 24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard… Read the whole commentary →

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