I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
So there is a bond between the Father and the Son that you cannot have one without the other. To deny one is to deny the other; to receive one is to receive the other. They go together as a package and you can't separate them. Now the King James translators, here in verse 1 John 2:23 , added