1 John 2:24
Therefore let that which you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
23Anyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either.
25And this is the promise which He Himself promised to you—eternal life.
Cross References
Luke 1:2just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us,
John 8:25Then they said to Him, “Who are You?” And Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.
John 15:7If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask whatever you may desire, and it shall be done for you.
John 17:21so that they all may be one, just as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
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 →