2 John 1:9
Everyone who transgresses and does not abide in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching of Christ has both the Father and the Son.
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In Context
8Watch yourselves, so that we do not lose what we have worked for, but may receive a full reward.
Cross References
Matthew 11:27All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
John 5:23so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Acts 2:42And they devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
Titus 2:10not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in every way they will make the teaching of God our Savior attractive.
Hebrews 6:1Therefore, let us leave behind the elementary teaching about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God,
Matthew Henry on 2 John 1:8-10
Deceivers Condemned. ( a. d. 90.) 7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. 9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. In this principal part of the epistle we find, I. The ill news… Read the whole commentary →