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.


In Context

18 Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

19 They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

20 You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

21 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.

22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

23 Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn't have the Father. He who confesses the Son has 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 Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

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.