1 John 2:24
As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, then you, too, shall abide in the Son and in the Father.
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In Context
23No one who denies the Son also has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son, also has the Father.
25And this is the Promise, which he himself has promised to us: Eternal Life.
Cross References
Luke 1:2just as they have been handed on to those of us who from the beginning saw the same and were ministers of the word,
John 8:25And so they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them: “The Beginning, who is also speaking to you.
John 15:7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, then you may ask for whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.
John 17:21So may they all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me, and I am in you, so also may they be one in us: so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ live in you in abundance, with all wisdom, teaching and correcting one another, with psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing to God with the grace in your hearts.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 2:21-28
Concerning Antichrist. ( a. d. 80.) 20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. 21 I have not written unto 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 but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. 24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard… Read the whole commentary →