1 John 2:24
Therefore let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you have heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father.
Text-Critical English NT
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In Context
23No one who denies the Son has the Father.
25And this is what he has promised us—eternal life.
Cross References
Luke 1:2just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us,
John 8:25They said to him, “Who are yoʋ?” Jesus said to them, “Exactly 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 for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
John 17:21that they may all be one, just as yoʋ, Father, are in me, and I am in yoʋ, that they also may be one in us, so that the world may believe that yoʋ sent me.
Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another with all wisdom as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to the Lord with gratitude 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 →