1 John 2:24
As for you, let that abide in you which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall abide in you, you shall also abide in the Son, and in the Father.
Revised King James New Testament
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In Context
23Whoever denies the Son, does not have the Father: he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
25And this is the promise which he himself has given us: eternal life.
Cross References
Luke 1:2Just as they have been delivered to us, by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
John 8:25Then they said to him, Who are you? And Jesus said to them, That which I have been saying to you from the beginning.
John 15:7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you.
John 17:21That they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me.
Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness 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 →