1 John 2:25

And what God told us is that he will cause us to live forever!

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

In Context

24So, as for you, you must continue to conduct your lives according to the true message that you heard when you began [MTY] to believe in Christ. If you continue to do that, you will continue to have a close relationship with both God’s Son and the Father.

26I have written this to you to ◄ warn you about/tell you to beware of► those who want to deceive you concerning the truth about Christ.

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Cross References

Luke 18:30will receive in this life many times as much as they left. And in the future age they will ◄live eternally with God/ have eternal life►.”

John 6:27Stop desiring food that will soon spoil! Instead, desire to get spiritual food that will last forever! Yearn for eternal life! That is what I, the one who came from heaven, will give you. God my Father has shown that he approves of me enabling me to do that.”

John 6:54Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will cause them to become alive again at ◄the last day/the judgment day►,

John 10:28I will give them eternal life. No one will separate them from me, not ever. No one shall ever pull them away from belonging to me.

John 17:2You gave me authority over all people, in order that I might enable all those whom you chose to come to me to live eternally.

Romans 5:21He did that in order that just like people everywhere inevitably sin, which results in their dying [MET, PRS], people everywhere might inevitably experience God’s acting kindly towards them in a way they do not deserve [MET, PRS] by erasing the record of their sins. The result is that people can live eternally because of what Jesus Christ our Lord did for them.

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 →

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