1 John 2:20

And you have an anointing from the Holy, and you discern every man.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

In Context

19From us they went forth, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, with us would they have remained. But they went forth from us, that it might be known that they were not of us.

21I have not written to you because you know not the truth, but you know it, and that no lie is of it, of the truth.

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Cross References

Luke 4:18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he hath anointed me to evangelize to the poor, And hath sent me to heal the contrite in heart, To proclaim to the captives release, And to the blind, vision, And to assure the contrite by remission,

Matthew Henry on 1 John 2:19-20

Concerning Antichrist. ( a. d. 80.) 18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. Here is, I. A moral prognostication of the time; the end is coming: Little children, it is the last time, v.… Read the whole commentary →

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