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1 John 2:21 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. "

1 John 2:21

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19 They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

20 You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

21 I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

23 Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

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