20 But you have an anointing(A) from the Holy One,(B) and all of you have knowledge.[a] 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. 22 Who is the liar, if not the one who denies that Jesus is the Messiah?(C) This one is the antichrist: the one who denies the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son can have the Father;(D) he who confesses the Son has the Father as well.(E)

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  1. 1 John 2:20 Other mss read and you know all things

20 And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. 21 I have not written to you because[a] you do not know the truth, but because[b] you do know it, and because[c] every lie is not of the truth. 22 Who is the liar except the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This person is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. 23 Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.

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  1. 1 John 2:21 Or “that”
  2. 1 John 2:21 Or “that”
  3. 1 John 2:21 Or “that”