1 John 2:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:

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  • 1 John 1:6 : 6 If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:
  • 1 John 1:8 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.
  • Jas 2:14-16 : 14 What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation? 15 If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food, 16 And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this?
  • Titus 1:16 : 16 They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.
  • 1 John 2:9 : 9 He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.
  • 1 John 4:20 : 20 If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?
  • Hos 8:2-3 : 2 They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel. 3 Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.
  • 1 John 1:10 : 10 If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.

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    3 And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.

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    5 But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:

    6 He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.

  • John 8:55
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    55 You have no knowledge of him, but I have knowledge of him; and if I said I have no knowledge of him I would be talking falsely like you: but I have full knowledge of him, and I keep his word.

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    10 If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.

  • 1 John 2:20-23
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    20 And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.

    21 I have not sent you this letter because you have no knowledge of what is true, but because you have knowledge, and because that which is false has nothing in common with that which is true.

    22 Who is false but he who says that Jesus is not the Christ? He is the Antichrist who has no belief in the Father or the Son.

    23 He who has no belief in the Son has not the Father: he who makes clear his belief in the Son has the Father.

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    24 He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.

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    20 If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

    21 And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

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    2 In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

    3 For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

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    8 If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

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    6 If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:

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    6 Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.

    7 My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;

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    6 And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.

    7 Because a number of false teachers have gone out into the world, who do not give witness that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Such a one is a false teacher and Antichrist.

    8 Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.

    9 Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.

  • 1 John 4:6-8
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    6 We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

    7 My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

    8 He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

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    24 He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.

  • 1 Cor 8:2-3
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    2 If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;

    3 But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.

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    42 But I have knowledge of you that you have no love for God in your hearts.

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    17 The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

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    15 If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.

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    21 He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

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    18 My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

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    10 He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.

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    10 In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

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    4 Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.

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    19 We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

    20 And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

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    13 If we are without faith, still he keeps faith, for he will never be untrue to himself.

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    11 Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.

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    12 No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

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    12 But he made answer and said, Truly I say to you, I have no knowledge of you.

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    9 He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.