21I have not written to you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.


In Context

18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist cometh, even now are there many antichrists; by which we know that it is the last time.

19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

21 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.

22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

23 Whoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

1 John 2:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:21I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:21I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:21I have not written to you as to them that know not the truth, but as to them that know it: and that no lie is of the truth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:21I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:21I 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:21I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:21I 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:21I 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:21I have not written to you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.