1 John 2:21

World English Bible (2000)

I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Pet 1:12 : 12 Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
  • Jude 1:5 : 5 Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn't believe.
  • Prov 9:8-9 : 8 Don't reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you. 9 Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
  • Rom 15:14-15 : 14 I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others. 15 But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,
  • Prov 1:5 : 5 that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

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    1 The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth;

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    26 These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.

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    19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

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    3 For I rejoiced greatly, when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.

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