1 John 2:21 KJV — MannaFest

1 John 2:21

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.

KJV

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ASV

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.

WEB

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.

YLT

I did not write to you because ye have not known the truth, but because ye have known it, and because no lie is of the truth.

DBT

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

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1 John — The aged apostle writes to churches in Asia Minor facing docetic teachers who deny the incarnation. Three tests interweave through five short chapters: walk in the light, love the brethren, confess Jesus come in the flesh.

Author: The apostle John — same author as the Gospel of John and 2/3 John; early church unanimous
Date: Late 1st century, c. AD 85–95, likely written from Ephesus

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14 verses on the floor

1 John 5:13
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
2 Peter 1:12
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
Revelation 2:2
I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
Jude 1:5
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Proverbs 1:5
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

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They are liars, egregious opposers of sacred truth: Who is a liar, or the liar, the notorious liar of the time and age in which we live, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? The great and pernicious lies that the father of lies, or of liars, spreads in the world, were of old, and usually are, falsehoods and errors relating to the person of Christ.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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