Devine Scripture

1 John 2:21

1 John chapter 2 · verse 21 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.20And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

v.21This passage

v.22Who is the liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, even he that denieth the Father and the Son.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jude 1:5

    Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

  • Proverbs 1:5

    That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:

  • Proverbs 9:8

    Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee: Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

  • Romans 15:14

    And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

  • 2 Peter 1:12

    Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with you.