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 answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
• John 15:9–10As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
• 1 Jn 4:13Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
• 2 Jn 1:5–6And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
• 1 Jn 4:16And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
• John 15:7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
• Rev 3:3Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
• 1 Jn 2:7Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
• 1 Jn 1:3That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
• Rev 3:11Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
• Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
• Ps 119:11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
• John 17:21–24That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
• Heb 3:14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
• 1 Jn 1:7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
• Phil 4:15Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.
• 2 Jn 1:2For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.
• Heb 2:1Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
• 3 Jn 1:3For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.
• Prov 23:23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
• Luke 1:2Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
• John 8:25Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
• Luke 9:44Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.

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