1 John 2:21 Parallel Translations

I'm writing to you because you know the truth, not because you don't know the truth. You know that no lie ever comes from the truth.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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:

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.

BBE:

I have not sent you this letter because you have no knowledge of what is true, but because you have knowledge, and because that which is false has nothing in common with that which is true.

DBY:

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.

ERV:

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.

WEY:

I have written to you, not because you are ignorant of the truth, but because you know it, and you know that nothing false comes from the truth.

WBS:

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

WEB:

I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of 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.

1 John 2:21 Cross References

XREF:

John 8:44 "You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 18:37 Therefore Pilate said to Him, "So You are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice."

James 1:19 This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger;

2 Peter 1:12 Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them, and have been established in the truth which is present with you.

1 John 3:19 We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before Him

Jude 1:5 Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

2:21 {22} 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) The taking away of an objection, He did not write these things to men who are ignorant of religion, but rather to those who know the truth well, yes so far that they are able to discern truth from falsehood.

PNT:

2:21 I have not written unto you, etc. John writes to them as those who know the truth, and know how to discern between the truth and lies.

WES:

2:21 I have written - Namely, 1Jo 2:13. To you because ye know the truth - That is, to confirm you in the knowledge ye have already. Ye know that no lie is of the truth - That all the doctrines of these antichrists are irreconcilable to it.

MHC:

2:18-23 Every man is an antichrist, who denies the Person, or any of the offices of Christ; and in denying the Son, he denies the Father also, and has no part in his favour while he rejects his great salvation. Let this prophecy that seducers would rise in the Christian world, keep us from being seduced. The church knows not well who are its true members, and who are not, but thus true Christians were proved, and rendered more watchful and humble. True Christians are anointed ones; their names expresses this: they are anointed with grace, with gifts and spiritual privileges, by the Holy Spirit of grace. The great and most hurtful lies that the father of lies spreads in the world, usually are falsehoods and errors relating to the person of Christ. The unction from the Holy One, alone can keep us from delusions. While we judge favourably of all who trust in Christ as the Divine Saviour, and obey his word, and seek to live in union with them, let us pity and pray for those who deny the Godhead of Christ, or his atonement, and the new-creating work of the Holy Ghost. Let us protest against such antichristian doctrine, and keep from them as much as we may.

CONC:

FALSE Ignorant Letter Lie Nothing Truth Written

Common Ignorant Lie True. Truth Write Written

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