1 John 2:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye know all the things.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

1 John 2:27 : 27 And as for you, the anointing which ye received of him abideth in you, and ye need {G5532} not that any one teach you; but as his anointing teacheth you; concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in him.
Mark 1:24 : 24 saying, {G1436} What have we to do with thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
John 14:26 : 26 But the Comforter, [even] the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said unto you.
Prov 28:5 : 5 Evil men understand not justice; But they that seek Jehovah understand all things.
Acts 10:38 : 38 [ even] Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
1 Cor 2:15 : 15 But he that is spiritual {G3303} judgeth all things, and he himself is judged of no man.
2 Cor 1:21-22 : 21 Now he that establisheth us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God; 22 who also sealed us, and gave [us] the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Ps 45:7 : 7 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness: Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Ps 71:22 : 22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, [Even] thy truth, O my God: Unto thee will I sing praises with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
Ps 92:10 : 10 But my horn hast thou exalted like [the horn of] the wild-ox: I am anointed with fresh oil.
Ps 16:10 : 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.
Ps 23:5 : 5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou hast anointed my head with oil; My cup runneth over.
Luke 4:18 : 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luke 4:34 : 34 Ah! what have we to do with thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
John 10:4-5 : 4 {G2532} When he hath put forth all his own, {G4263} he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
Heb 1:9 : 9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; Therefore {G5124} God, thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Heb 8:11 : 11 And they shall not {G3361} teach every man his fellow-citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them.
Isa 43:3 : 3 For I am Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour; I have given Egypt as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in thy stead.
Isa 61:1 : 1 The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening [of the prison] to them that are bound;
John 16:13 : 13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, [these] shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come.
Acts 3:14 : 14 But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you,
1 John 4:13 : 13 hereby {G5129} we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
Rev 3:7 : 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth:
Rev 4:8 : 8 and the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

1 John 2:26-29
4 verses
83%
26These things have I written unto you concerning them that would lead you astray.
27And as for you, the anointing which ye received of him abideth in you, and ye need {G5532} not that any one teach you; but as his anointing teacheth you; concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in him.
28And now, [my] little children, abide in him; that, if he shall be manifested, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
29If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him.
1 John 2:21
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21I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and because no {G3956} lie is of the truth.
1 John 2:18-19
2 verses
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18Little children, it is the last hour: and as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour.
19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us.
1 John 2:13-15
3 verses
73%
13I write unto you, fathers, because ye know him who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil one. I have written unto you, little children, because ye know the Father.
14I have written unto you, fathers, because ye know him who is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the evil one.
15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:3-5
3 verses
72%
3And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
5but whoso {G302} keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:
1 John 4:4-6
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4Ye are of God, [my] little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
5They are of the world: therefore {G5124} speak they [as] of the world, and the world heareth them.
6We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he who is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
2 Tim 3:14
71%
14But abide thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them.
1 John 5:19-20
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19We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.
20And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
1 John 5:13
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13These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, [even] unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God.
1 John 4:13
71%
13hereby {G5129} we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
1 Cor 2:12
70%
12But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God.
1 Cor 2:10
70%
10But unto us God revealed [them] through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
1 John 2:24
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24As for you, let that abide in you which ye heard from the beginning. If that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you, ye also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father.
1 Cor 3:16
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16Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
John 17:7
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7Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee:
2 Cor 1:21
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21Now he that establisheth us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;
2 John 1:7
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7For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, [even] they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.
1 John 4:2
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2Hereby {G5129} know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
1 Cor 1:5
69%
5that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge;
1 John 3:24
69%
24And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And hereby {G5129} we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
1 John 3:19
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19{G2532} Hereby {G5129} shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him:
John 14:17
69%
17[ even] the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot {G3756} receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: {G1161} ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.
2 Pet 1:3
69%
3seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue;
1 John 2:7-8
2 verses
69%
7Beloved, no new commandment write I unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye heard.
8Again, a new commandment write I unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shineth.
2 Pet 3:17
69%
17Ye therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness.
1 John 4:16
68%
16And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.
2 John 1:9
68%
9Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, {G5547} the same hath both the Father and the Son.
John 14:20
68%
20In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
2 John 1:2
68%
2for the truth's sake which abideth in us, and it shall be with us for ever:
1 John 1:3-5
3 verses
68%
3that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you also, that ye also may have fellowship with us: yea, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ:
4and these things we write, that our joy may be made full.
5And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
John 15:27
68%
27and ye also bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
2 Pet 1:12
68%
12Wherefore I shall be {G3756} ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with [you].
2 Cor 1:13
68%
13For we write no other things unto you, than {G2228} what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope {G3754} ye will acknowledge {G2532} unto the end:
John 5:42
68%
42But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in yourselves.
2 Cor 3:2
68%
2Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;
3 John 1:12
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12Demetrius hath the witness of all [men], and of the truth itself: yea, {G2532} we also bear witness: and thou knowest that our witness is true.