21I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
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Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. …
And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. …
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,…
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