1 John 2:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 2 Pet 1:12 : 12 Therefore I will not be negligent to always remind you of these things, though you know them and are established in the present truth.
  • Jude 1:5 : 5 I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
  • Prov 9:8-9 : 8 Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you. 9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be even wiser: teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
  • Rom 15:14-15 : 14 And I myself am also persuaded of you, my brethren, that you are also full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. 15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written to you more boldly in part, to remind you, because of the grace given to me by God,
  • Prov 1:5 : 5 A wise man will hear and increase in learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel;

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  • 1 John 2:20
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    20But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.

  • 1 John 2:22
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    22Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.

  • 1 John 2:3-5
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    3And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

    4He who says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

    5But whoever keeps his word, truly the love of God is perfected in him: by this we know that we are in him.

  • 2 John 1:1-2
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    1The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who have known the truth.

    2For the sake of the truth, which dwells in us and will be with us forever.

  • 1 John 2:13-15
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    13I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father.

    14I have written to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.

    15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • John 8:44-45
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    44You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

    45And because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.

  • 1 John 2:26-28
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    26These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you.

    27But the anointing which you have received from him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in him.

    28And now, little children, abide in him, that when he appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

  • 2 John 1:7
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    7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

  • 1 John 1:5-6
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    5This then is the message which we have heard from him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

    6If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practice the truth:

  • Gal 1:20
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    20Now concerning the things I write to you, indeed, before God, I do not lie.

  • 1 John 5:19-20
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    19And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.

    20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

  • 3 John 1:3-4
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    3For I rejoiced greatly when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, even as you walk in the truth.

    4I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

  • 1 John 2:7-8
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    7Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard from the beginning.

    8Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines.

  • John 8:55
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    55Yet you have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I do not know him, I shall be a liar like you: but I know him, and keep his word.

  • 2 Pet 1:12
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    12Therefore I will not be negligent to always remind you of these things, though you know them and are established in the present truth.

  • 1 John 3:18-19
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    18My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

    19And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.

  • 2 Cor 11:31
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    31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I do not lie.

  • 1 John 5:13
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    13These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe in the name of the Son of God.

  • 1 John 1:8
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    8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

  • 3 John 1:12
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    12Demetrius has received a good report from all men, and of the truth itself: yes, and we also bear witness, and you know that our testimony is true.

  • Prov 22:21
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    21That I might make you know the certainty of the words of truth, that you may answer the words of truth to those who send to you?

  • 2 John 1:4
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    4I rejoiced greatly that I found your children walking in truth, as we received a commandment from the Father.

  • 1 John 1:10
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    10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

  • John 8:32
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    32And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

  • 2 John 1:9
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    9Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son.

  • 2 Cor 1:13
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    13For we write no other things to you than what you read or acknowledge; and I trust you shall acknowledge even to the end;

  • 1 John 2:24
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    24Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.

  • 1 John 3:5-7
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    5And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him there is no sin.

    6Whoever abides in him does not sin: whoever sins has not seen him, nor known him.

    7Little children, let no one deceive you: he who does righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.

  • 2 Cor 13:8
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    8For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

  • 2 Thess 2:10-12
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    10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

    11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

    12That they all might be condemned who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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    6We are from God. He who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

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    1My little children, I write these things to you so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: