1 John 2:21 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²¹ I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and know that no lie is of the truth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ I write to you not because you are ignorant and do not perceive and know the Truth, but because you do perceive and know it, and [know positively] that nothing false (no deception, no lie) is of the Truth.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

Common English Bible

²¹ I don’t write to you because you don’t know the truth but because you know it. You know that no lie comes from the truth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ I have not written to you as to ones who are ignorant of the truth, but as to ones who know the truth. For no lie is of the truth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ I have not written to you as to them that know not the truth, but as to them that know it: and that no lie is of the truth.

1 John 2:21 Cross References

Proverbs 1:5

the wise man also may hear and increase in learning, and the man of understanding acquire skill,

John 18:37

Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears my voice.”

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

James 1:19

Know this, my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

2 Peter 1:12

Therefore I intend always to remind you of these things, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.

1 John 3:19

By this we shall know that we are of the truth, and reassure our hearts before him

Jude 1:5

Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.