1 John 2:21

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I 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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐκ ἔγραψα ὑμῖν ὅτι οὐκ οἴδατε τὴν ἀλήθειαν, ἀλλʼ ὅτι οἴδατε αὐτήν, καὶ ὅτι πᾶν ψεῦδος ἐκ τῆς ἀληθείας οὐκ ἔστιν.

Transliteration

Not I egrapsa to you because not you oidate the alētheian, all' because you oidate it, and because all pseudos from the alētheias not estin.

Grammar Details

*egrapsa*: aorist, indicative, active, 1st person singular - I wrote
*oidate*: perfect, indicative, active, 2nd person plural - you know
*alētheian*: accusative, feminine, singular - truth
*all'*: contraction of *alla* - but/rather
*pseudos*: nominative, neuter, singular - falsehood/lie
*alētheias*: genitive, feminine, singular - truth
*estin*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - is/exists

Word Meanings

*egrapsa*: wrote/have written/composed
*oidate*: know/have known/understand/perceive
*alētheian*: truth/reality/genuineness
*pseudos*: falsehood/lie/deception
*alētheias*: truth/reality/genuineness

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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

2 Pet 1:12 : 12 Wherefore 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].
Jude 1:5 : 5 Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Prov 9:8-9 : 8 Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee: Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee. 9 Give [instruction] to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Rom 15:14-15 : 14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are {G2532} full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. 15 But {G80} I write the more boldly unto you in some measure, as putting you again in remembrance, because of the grace that was given me of God,
Prov 1:5 : 5 That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:

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