1 John 2:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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

That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:

John 18:37

Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end have I been born, and to this end am I come into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

James 1:19

Ye know this, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

2 Peter 1:12

Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with you.

1 John 3:19

Hereby shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him,

Jude 1:5

Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, how that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.