1 John 2:24

If what you have heard from the beginning is abiding in you, you also will ever abide in the Son and in the Father.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

In Context

23Whoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father; but he who confesses the Son has the Father also. As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you.

25And this is the promise which he has promised to us even life eternal.

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Cross References

Luke 1:2just as they reported them to us, who were from beginning eye- witnesses and ministers of the word,

John 8:25"Who are you?" then they asked him. "What I am telling you from the beginning," Jesus answered.

John 15:7"If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours.

John 17:21"that they may all be one, even as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee; that they also may be in us; in order that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ have its home in you richly, in all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, ever singing with grace in your hearts unto 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 →

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