Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,
1 John 2:21 - English Standard Version 2016 I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. Matoleo zaidiKing 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 the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,
Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
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 does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.
By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him;
Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.