1 John 2:21 meaning and explanation

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.

1 John 2:21, Berean Standard Bible

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John, writing as a pastor to a congregation troubled by teachers who had left them (verse 19), reassures his readers rather than correcting them. He says he did not write because they were ignorant of the truth, but because they already knew it.

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