Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Who is a liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Messiah? The person who denies the Father and the Son is an antichrist.
New American Standard Bible
Who is the liar but
King James Version
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
Holman Bible
Who is the liar, if not the one who denies that Jesus is the Messiah?
A Conservative Version
Who is the liar if not he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
American Standard Version
Who is the liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, even he that denieth the Father and the Son.
Amplified
Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed)? This is the antichrist [the enemy and antagonist of Christ], the one who denies and consistently refuses to acknowledge the Father and the Son.
An Understandable Version
Who is the liar? It is the person who denies that Jesus [truly] is the Christ [i.e., God's specially chosen One]. This person is the antichrist [See verse 18]; he is the one who denies [the truth about] the Father and the Son.
Anderson New Testament
Who is a liar, but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.
Bible in Basic English
Who is false but he who says that Jesus is not the Christ? He is the Antichrist who has no belief in the Father or the Son.
Common New Testament
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.
Daniel Mace New Testament
who is so great an impostor as he, who denies that Jesus is the Christ? he is antichrist, that denies the father and the son.
Darby Translation
Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
Who is a liar, if not he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
Godbey New Testament
Who is a liar except the one denying that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist, the one denying the Father and the Son.
Goodspeed New Testament
Who is such a liar as the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the real Antichrist??he man who disowns the Father and the Son.
John Wesley New Testament
Who is that liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is Antichrist who denieth the Father and the Son.
Julia Smith Translation
Who is a liar if not he denying that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, denying the Father and the Son.
King James 2000
Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Who is the liar except the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This person is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.
Modern King James verseion
Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He who denies the Father and the Son is antichrist.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Who is a liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is Christ? The same is the antichrist that denieth the father and the son.
Moffatt New Testament
Who is the real liar? who but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is 'antichrist,' he who disowns the Father and the Son.
Montgomery New Testament
Who is the liar if not the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, even he who disowns the Father and the Son.
NET Bible
Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.
New Heart English Bible
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.
Noyes New Testament
Who is the liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denieth the Father and the Son.
Sawyer New Testament
Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the anti-christ, [the man that] denies the Father and the Son.
The Emphasized Bible
Who, is the False One; - save he that denieth that, Jesus, is the Christ? The same, is the Antichrist, - he that denieth the Father and the Son.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Who is the liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Messiah? This man is the antichrist, who denieth the Father and the Son.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Who is a liar, if not the man who rejects the truth that Jesus is the Christ? He is the Anti-Christ--The man who rejects the Father and the Son.
Webster
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
Weymouth New Testament
Who is a liar compared with him who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He who disowns the Father and the Son is the anti-Christ.
Williams New Testament
Who is the notorious liar, if it is not the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the real Antichrist, the man who disowns the Father and the Son.
World English Bible
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.
Worrell New Testament
Who is the liar, but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Anti-Christ, he that denies the Father and the Son.
Worsley New Testament
Who is a liar, if not he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, that denieth the Father as well as the Son;
Youngs Literal Translation
Who is the liar, except he who is denying that Jesus is the Christ? this one is the antichrist who is denying the Father and the Son;
Themes
AntiChrist » Who is an antiChrist
AntiChrist » Denies the father and the son
Atheism » General references to
Christ » Denial of » General references to
Coming of the lord jesus Christ » Who shall have confidence when the lord comes
Denial » Those that deny the lord
Denial of Christ » General references to
Denial of Christ » Is the spirit of antiChrist
Topics
Interlinear
Esti
ἐστί
Esti
Usage: 585
Hoti
οὗτος οὗτοι αὕτη αὕται
Houtos
Usage: 258
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 2:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Departure Of The False Teachers
21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because lies don't come from truth. 22 Who is a liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Messiah? The person who denies the Father and the Son is an antichrist. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father. The person who acknowledges the Son also has the Father.
Cross References
2 John 1:7
For many deceivers have gone out into the world. They refuse to acknowledge Jesus the Messiah as having become human. Any such person is a deceiver and an antichrist.
1 John 4:3
But every spirit who does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist. You have heard that he is coming, and now he is already in the world.
1 John 2:18
Little children, it is the last hour. Just as you heard that an antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.
John 8:44
You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
1 Corinthians 12:2-3
You know that when you were unbelievers, you were enticed and led astray to worship idols that couldn't even speak.
1 John 1:6
If we claim that we have fellowship with him but keep living in darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.
1 John 2:4
The person who says, "I have come to know him," but does not continually keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth has no place in that person.
1 John 2:23
No one who denies the Son has the Father. The person who acknowledges the Son also has the Father.
1 John 4:20
Whoever says, "I love God," but hates his brother is a liar. The one who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love the God whom he has not seen.
Jude 1:4
For some people have slipped in among you unnoticed. They were written about long ago as being deserving of this condemnation because they are ungodly. They turn the grace of our God into uncontrollable lust and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus the Messiah.
Revelation 3:9
I will make those who belong to the synagogue of Satan those who claim to be Jews and aren't, but are lying come and bow down at your feet. Then they will realize that I have loved you.