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.

I have {G1125} not {G3756} written {G1125} unto you {G5213} because {G3754} ye know {G1492} not {G3756} the truth {G225}, but {G235} because {G3754} ye know {G1492} it {G846}, and {G2532} that {G3754} no {G3956}{G3756} lie {G5579} is {G2076} of {G1537} the truth {G225}.

It is not because you don’t know the truth that I have written to you, but because you do know it, and because no lie has its origin in the truth.

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.

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.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • 2 Peter 1:12 (10 votes)

    ¶ 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.

  • Jude 1:5 (7 votes)

    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 (6 votes)

    A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

  • Proverbs 9:8 (6 votes)

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

  • Proverbs 9:9 (6 votes)

    Give [instruction] to a wise [man], and he will be yet wiser: teach a just [man], and he will increase in learning.

  • Romans 15:14 (4 votes)

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

  • Romans 15:15 (4 votes)

    Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,