1 John 2:24
Let that which you heard from the beginning abide in you. If that which you heard from the beginning may abide in you, you also are abiding in the Son, and in the Father.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
23No one denying the Son has the Father: the one confessing the Son has also the Father.
25This is the message which he proclaimed unto you, eternal life.
Cross References
Luke 1:2as those being eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word have delivered unto us;
John 8:25Then they said to Him, Who art thou? And Jesus said to them, Even that which I also speak to you from the beginning.
John 15:7If you may abide in me, and my words may abide in you, ask whatsoever you may wish, and it shall be done unto you.
John 17:21that they may all be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that thou didst send me.
Colossians 3:16Let the word of God dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another, in all wisdom, in psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, with grace making melody in your hearts to God;
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 →