1 John 2:24
As for you, you must let what you have heard from the beginning continue to live in you. If what you heard from the beginning dwells in you, you will remain both in the Son and the Father.
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In Context
23No one who rejects the Son has the Father; to acknowledge the Son is to have the Father also.
25And this is what he himself promised us – eternal life!
Cross References
Psalms 119:11In my heart have I treasured your word, to keep from sinning against you.
Luke 1:2just as they were reported to us by those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses, and afterward became bearers of the message.
John 8:25“Who are you?” they asked. “Why ask exactly what I have been telling you?” said Jesus.
John 15:7If you remain united to me, and my teaching remains in your hearts, ask whatever you wish, and it will be yours.
John 17:21that they all may be one – that as you, Father, are in union with us – and so the world may believe that you have sent me as your messenger.
Colossians 3:16Let the message of the Christ be alive in your minds in all its wealth, bringing all wisdom with it. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, and hymns, and sacred songs, full of the loving kindness of God, lifting your hearts in song to him.
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 →