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20 You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.[a] 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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  1. 2:20 Or, “know what is true”, or, “know all things”

20 But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and all of you have knowledge.[a](A) 21 I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and you know that no lie comes from the truth. 22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ?[b] This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; everyone who confesses the Son has the Father also.(B)

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  1. 2.20 Other ancient authorities read you know all things
  2. 2.22 Or the Messiah