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1 John 2:21

WEB

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.

KJV

21I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

BSB

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.

FBV

21I'm not writing because you don't know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie comes from the truth.

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Extra References

2 Peter 1:12

12Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them and are established in the present truth.


Jude 1:5

5Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.


Proverbs 1:5

5that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel;


Proverbs 9:8-9

8Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you. 9Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.


Romans 15:14-15

14I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers,[+] that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others. 15But I write the more boldly to you in part as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,