1 John 2:21 BSB — MannaFest

1 John 2:21

I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth.

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth - You are not to regard my writing to you in this earnest manner as any evidence that I do not suppose you to be acquainted with religion and its duties. Some, perhaps, might have been disposed to put this construction on what he had said, but he assures them that that was not the reason why he had thus addressed them. The very fact that they did understand the subject of religion, he says, was rather the reason why he wrote to them.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

I have written - Namely, 1 John ii, 13. To you because ye know the truth - That is, to confirm you in the knowledge ye have already. Ye know that no lie is of the truth - That all the doctrines of these antichrists are irreconcilable to it.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

For right (a straight line) is the index of itself and of what is crooked [ESTIUS]. The Greek is susceptible of ALFORD'S translation, "Because ye know it, and because no lie is of the truth" (literally, "every lie is excluded from being of the truth").

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οὐκ	ouk	Not	G3756 →
ἔγραψα	egrapsa	I have written	G1125 →
ὑμῖν	humin	to you	G4771 →
ὅτι	hoti	because	G3754 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
οἴδατε	oidate	you know
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
ἀλήθειαν	alētheian	truth	G225 →
ἀλλ᾽	all᾽	but	G235 →
ὅτι	hoti	because	G3754 →
οἴδατε	oidate	you know
αὐτὴν	autēn	it	G846 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ὅτι	hoti	because	G3754 →
πᾶν	pan	any	G3956 →
ψεῦδος	pseudos	lie	G5579 →
ἐκ	ek	of	G1537 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
ἀληθείας	alētheias	truth	G225 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἔστιν.	estin	is.	G1510 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 1:5
let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
leads to
- Proverbs 12:1
  Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Proverbs 9:9
  Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.
Through
Jude 1:5
Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.
leads to
- Hebrews 3:16
  For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
- Numbers 26:64–65
  Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- 1 Corinthians 10:1–12
  I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.
- Psalms 106:26
  So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
- Numbers 14:22–37
  not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
Through
2 Peter 1:12
Therefore I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you now have.
leads to
- Romans 15:14–15
  I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About 1 John

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About 1 John