let a wise person listen and increase learning, and let a discerning person obtain guidance –
1 John 2:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie comes from 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. |
let a wise person listen and increase learning, and let a discerning person obtain guidance –
‘You are a king then? ’ Pilate asked. ‘You say that I’m a king,’ Jesus replied. ‘I was born for this, and I have come into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.’
You are of your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
My dear brothers and sisters, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
Therefore I will always remind you about these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you now have.
This is how we will know that we belong to the truth and will reassure our hearts before him
Now I want to remind you, although you came to know all these things once and for all, that Jesus saved a people out of Egypt and later destroyed those who did not believe;