1 John 2:21

So I’m not writing this letter to tell you that message again. No, I’m writing to you because you already know that true message. That message is properly true, and there are no lies in it.

Plain English Version

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.

In Context

20But you mob are real Christians. Jesus put the Holy Spirit in you, and you all know the true message about Jesus.

22But those enemies of Jesus Christ, they tell really big lies. They say that Jesus is not the special man that God promised to send. That’s the biggest lie that anyone can tell. The people that tell those lies, they turned against God the father and against his son Jesus.

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Cross References

2 Peter 1:12I will keep on telling you about these things, even though you already know them, and you know that they are true. I will keep on telling you about them anyway.

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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