1 John 2:21

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no 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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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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High concordance with source wording
Well-suited for in-depth word studies and exegesis
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Reference numbers can disrupt continuous reading
Less suitable for public or devotional reading compared to modern translations

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Referenced Verses

2 Pet 1:12 : 12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
Jude 1:5 : 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Prov 9:8-9 : 8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. 9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Rom 15:14-15 : 14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. 15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,
Prov 1:5 : 5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

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