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I haven't been writing this to tell you something you don't know, but to confirm the truth you do know, and to remind you that the truth doesn't breed lies.
21
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.
1 John 2:21 In-Context
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They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
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But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
21
I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth.
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Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.
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No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.