1 John 2:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

1 John 2:22 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 John 1:7
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
1 John 4:3
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
1 John 2:18
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
Jude 1:4
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 John 2:23
Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father:(but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

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Antichrist Apostasy Atheism Attributes of God Disbelief God Godlessness Guidance

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. 22)

22. a liar--Greek, “Who is the liar?” namely, guilty of the lie just mentioned (1Jo 2:21). that Jesus is the Christ--the grand central truth. He is Antichrist--Greek, “the Antichrist”; not however here personal, but in the abstract; the ideal of Antichrist is “he that denieth the Father and the Son.” To deny the latter is virtually to deny the former. Again, the truth as to the Son must be held in…