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20 [a]But you have an (A)anointing from (B)the Holy One, and (C)you all know. 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but (D)because you do know it, and [b]because no lie is (E)of the truth. 22 Who is the liar but (F)the one who denies that Jesus is the [c]Christ? This is (G)the [d]antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. 23 (H)Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 2:20 Lit And
  2. 1 John 2:21 Or know that
  3. 1 John 2:22 Or Anointed One, cf. 2:27
  4. 1 John 2:22 Or one against the Anointed One, cf. 2:27

20 But you have an anointing from the holy one, and all of you know the truth. 21 I don’t write to you because you don’t know the truth but because you know it. You know that no lie comes from the truth. 22 Who is the liar? Isn’t it the person 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, but the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.

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