1 John 2:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

1 John 2:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 14:26
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
1 John 2:27
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
2 Corinthians 1:21-22
Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; …
Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
Proverbs 28:5
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 20-27)

Here, I. The apostle encourages the disciples (to whom he writes) in these dangerous times, in this hour of seducers; he encourages them in the assurance of their stability in this day of apostasy: But you have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things. We see, 1. The blessing wherewith they were enriched—an unguent from heaven: You have an unction. True Christians are anointed ones, t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. But--Greek, “And.” He here states the means which they as believers have wherewith to withstand. Antichrists (1Jo 2:18), namely, the chrism (so the Greek: a play upon similar sounds), or “anointing unguent,” namely, the Holy Spirit (more plainly mentioned further on, as in John’s style, 1Jo 3:24; 4:13; 5:6), which they (“ye” is emphatical in contrast to those apostates, 1Jo 2:19) have “from th…