1 John 2:24
As for you, let the teaching which you have received from the very beginning continue in your hearts. If that teaching does continue in your hearts, you also will continue to be in union with the Son and with the Father.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
23No one who disowns the Son has the Father. He who acknowledges the Son has also the Father.
25And this is the promise which He Himself has given us--the Life of the Ages.
Cross References
Luke 1:2on the authority of those who were from the beginning eye-witnesses and were devoted to the service of the divine Message,
John 8:25"You--who are you?" they asked. "How is it that I am speaking to you at all?" replied Jesus.
John 15:7"If you continue in me and my sayings continue in you, ask what you will and it shall be done for you.
John 17:21that they may all be one, even as Thou art in me, O Father, and I am in Thee; that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.
Colossians 3:16Let the teaching concerning Christ remain as a rich treasure in your hearts. In all wisdom teach and admonish one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, and sing with grace 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 →