Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.

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? This one is the antichrist: the one who denies the Father and the Son.

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.

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.

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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Who
τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 344

is
ἐστί 
Esti 
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585
Usage: 585

a liar
ψεύστης 
Pseustes 
Usage: 8

but
εἰ 
Ei 
if, whether, that, not tr,
Usage: 218

ἀρνέομαι 
Arneomai 
Usage: 26

ὅτι 
Hoti 
οὗτος οὗτοι αὕτη αὕται 
Houtos 
Usage: 764
Usage: 258

Ἰησοῦς 
Iesous 
Usage: 969

the Christ
Χριστός 
christos 
Usage: 557

He is
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585

ἀντίχριστος 
Antichristos 
Usage: 5

ἀρνέομαι 
Arneomai 
Usage: 26

the Father
πατήρ 
Pater 
Usage: 180

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

Context Readings

Departure Of The False Teachers

21 I have not written to you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is a liar if not he denying that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, denying the Father and the Son. 23 Every one denying the Son, neither has the Father: he acknowledging the Son, has also the Father.

Cross References

2 John 1:7

For many cheats come into the world, they not acknowledging Jesus Christ coming in the flesh. This is the cheat and antichrist.

1 John 4:3

And every spirit which acknowledges not Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that of antichrist which ye have heard comes; and now is already in the world.

1 John 2:18

Young children, it is the last hour: and as ye have heard that antichrist comes, and now many antichrists have come; whence we know that it is the last hour.

John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil, and the eager desires of your father will ye do. He was slaying men from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he would speak a lie, he speaks of his own things; for he is a liar, and the father of him.

1 Corinthians 12:2-3

Ye know that ye were the nations, to dumb idols, as ye were led, being carried away.

1 John 1:6

If we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we are deceived, and do not the truth:

1 John 2:4

He saying, I have known him, and not keeping his commands, is a liar, and in him is not the truth.

1 John 2:23

Every one denying the Son, neither has the Father: he acknowledging the Son, has also the Father.

1 John 4:20

If any say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he not loving his brother whom he has seen, God whom he has not seen, how can he love?

Jude 1:4

For certain men entered in by stealth, long ago written of beforehand for judgment, irreligious, having changed the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Revelation 3:9

Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of them saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but they lie; behold, I will make them that they come and worship before thy feet, and they should know that I have loved thee.

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