Bible verse

1 John 2:21

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.

1 John 2:21 · BSB

1 John 2:21 in context

The verses around it, from 1 John 2.

17 The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.

18 Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.

19 They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.

20 You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.

21 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.

22 Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.

23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.

24 As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father.

25 And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.

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1 John 2:21 in other translations

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.

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.

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