2 John 1:7

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

For many deceivers have gone out into the world—those who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτι πολλοὶ πλάνοι εἰσῆλθόν εἰς τὸν κόσμον, οἱ μὴ ὁμολογοῦντες Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν ἐρχόμενον ἐν σαρκί. Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ πλάνος καὶ ὁ ἀντίχριστος.

Transliteration

Because many planoi eisēlthon into the kosmon, those not homologountes Iēsoun Christon erchomenon in sarki. This estin the planos and the antichristos.

Grammar Details

• *planoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - deceivers
• *eisēlthon*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd person plural - entered/went in
• *kosmon*: accusative, masculine, singular - world
• *homologountes*: present, active, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - confessing/acknowledging
• *Iēsoun*: accusative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *Christon*: accusative, masculine, singular - Christ
• *erchomenon*: present, middle/passive, participle, accusative, masculine, singular - coming
• *sarki*: dative, feminine, singular - flesh
• *estin*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *planos*: nominative, masculine, singular - deceiver
• *antichristos*: nominative, masculine, singular - antichrist

Word Meanings

• *planoi*: deceivers/imposters/misleaders
• *eisēlthon*: entered/went in/came into
• *kosmon*: world/universe/creation
• *homologountes*: confessing/acknowledging/professing
• *erchomenon*: coming/arriving/appearing
• *sarki*: flesh/body/human nature
• *planos*: deceiver/imposter/misleader
• *antichristos*: antichrist/opponent of Christ

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  For many deceivers have gone out into the world, who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  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.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, [even] they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  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.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  For many deceavers are entred in to the worlde which confesse not that Iesus Christ is come in the flesshe. This is a deceaver and an Antichrist.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For many disceauers are come in to the worlde, which confesse not yt Iesus Christ is come in the flesh: this is a disceauer and an Antechrist.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For many deceiuers are entred into this worlde, which confesse not that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh. He that is such one, is a deceiuer and an Antichrist.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For many deceauers are entred into the worlde, which confesse not that Iesus Christe is come in the fleshe. This is a deceauer and an antichriste.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ 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.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don't confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  because many leading astray did enter into the world, who are not confessing Jesus Christ coming in flesh; this one is he who is leading astray, and the antichrist.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, `even' they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, [even] they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Because a number of false teachers have gone out into the world, who do not give witness that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Such a one is a false teacher and Antichrist.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don't confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 2:26 : 26 I have written these things to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you.
• 1 John 4:1-3 : 1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. 3 And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now it is already in the world.
• 2 Pet 2:1-3 : 1 But just as there were false prophets among the people, there will also be false teachers among you. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. 2 Many will follow their destructive ways, and because of them, the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
• 1 John 2:18-22 : 18 Dear children, it is the last hour. Just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their going out showed that none of them belonged to us. 20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie comes from the truth. 22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.
• John 1:14 : 14 The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
• 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And undeniably, great is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, justified by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, and taken up in glory.
• Rev 12:9 : 9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
• Rev 13:14 : 14 It deceives those who dwell on the earth by the signs it was allowed to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.