1 John 2:24

Believers must let the original gospel message abide in them, ensuring they remain in the Son and the Father. Holding fast to the truth keeps us in fellowship with God.

Cross-references · 23

• John 14:23Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
• John 15:9–10As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.
• 1 Jn 4:13By this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.
• 2 Jn 1:5–6And now I urge you, dear lady—not as a new commandment to you, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.
• 1 Jn 4:16And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
• John 15:7If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
• Rev 3:3Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.
• 1 Jn 2:7Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.
• 1 Jn 1:3We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.
• Rev 3:11I am coming soon. Hold fast to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
• Col 3:16Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
• Ps 119:11I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
• John 17:21–24that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
• Heb 3:14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.
• 1 Jn 1:7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
• Phil 4:15And as you Philippians know, in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church but you partnered with me in the matter of giving and receiving.
• 2 Jn 1:2because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:
• Heb 2:1We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
• 3 Jn 1:3For I was overjoyed when the brothers came and testified about your devotion to the truth, in which you continue to walk.
• Prov 23:23Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
• Luke 1:2just as they were handed down to us by the initial eyewitnesses and servants of the word.
• John 8:25“Who are You?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied.
• Luke 9:44“Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”

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