That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning;\par\tab And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
1 John 2:21 - American Standard Version 2015 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning;\par\tab And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, {\cf6 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.}
Ye are of {\i your} father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth 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.
Ye know {\i this}, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
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 {\i you}.
Hereby shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him:
Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that Jesus, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.