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1 John 2:21

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

Updated King James 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 all of you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know all things.

22Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son.

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Cross References

Proverbs 9:8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

2 Peter 1:12Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though all of you know them, and be established in the present truth.

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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