1 John 2:22

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 John 1:7 : 7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!
  • 1 John 4:3 : 3 but every spirit that refuses to confess Jesus, that spirit is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.
  • 1 John 2:18 : 18 Warning About False Teachers Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. We know from this that it is the last hour.
  • 1 John 4:20 : 20 If anyone says“I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain men have secretly slipped in among you– men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe– ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
  • Rev 3:9 : 9 Listen! I am going to make those people from the synagogue of Satan– who say they are Jews yet are not, but are lying– Look, I will make them come and bow down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.
  • 1 John 2:23 : 23 Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
  • 1 Cor 12:2-3 : 2 You know that when you were pagans you were often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led. 3 So I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says,“Jesus is cursed,” and no one can say,“Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
  • 1 John 2:4 : 4 The one who says“I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.
  • 1 John 1:6 : 6 If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

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  • 1 John 2:23-24
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    23Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also.

    24As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

  • 1 John 2:21
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    21I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

  • 2 John 1:7-9
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    7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

    8Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

    9Everyone who goes on ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.

  • 1 John 2:4-6
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    4The one who says“I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

    5But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

    6The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.

  • 1 John 4:2-3
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    2By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,

    3but every spirit that refuses to confess Jesus, that spirit is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.

  • 1 John 5:10
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    10(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)

  • John 8:44-45
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    44You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

    45But because I am telling you the truth, you do not believe me.

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

  • 1 John 4:15
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    15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.

  • 1 John 5:5-6
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    5Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

    6Jesus Christ is the one who came by water and blood– not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

  • 1 John 2:18
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    18Warning About False Teachers Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. We know from this that it is the last hour.

  • 1 John 3:4-8
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    4Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.

    5And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

    6Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

    7Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.

    8The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.

  • 1 John 1:6
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    6If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

  • Matt 10:32-33
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    32“Whoever, then, acknowledges me before people, I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

    33But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.

  • 1 John 5:12
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    12The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.

  • 1 John 1:8
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    8If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

  • John 8:55
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    55Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

  • 1 John 5:19-20
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    19We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

    20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

  • 1 John 2:1
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    1(My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One,

  • 1 John 5:1
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    1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

  • 1 John 3:10
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    10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness– the one who does not love his fellow Christian– is not of God.

  • 2 Cor 11:31
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    31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying.

  • 1 John 4:20
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    20If anyone says“I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

  • 1 John 2:15
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    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 5:23
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    23so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

  • 2 Thess 2:3
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    3Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not arrive until the rebellion comes and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.

  • 1 John 2:9
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    9The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness.

  • Mark 13:21
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    21Then if anyone says to you,‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe him.

  • John 1:20
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    20He confessed– he did not deny but confessed–“I am not the Christ!”

  • John 3:36
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    36The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.

  • 1 John 2:29
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    29If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

  • John 10:36
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    36do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world,‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said,‘I am the Son of God’?

  • John 15:23
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    23The one who hates me hates my Father too.

  • Matt 24:23
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    23Then if anyone says to you,‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or‘There he is!’ do not believe him.

  • 2 Thess 2:9
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    9The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan’s working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders,

  • John 3:18
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    18The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.