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 him, “If a man 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 15:9–10Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
• 1 Jn 4:13By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
• 2 Jn 1:5–6Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
• 1 Jn 4:16We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
• John 15:7If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
• Rev 3:3Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
• 1 Jn 2:7Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.
• 1 Jn 1:3that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
• Rev 3:11I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.
• Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
• Ps 119:11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
• John 17:21–24that they may all be one; even 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 sent me.
• Heb 3:14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
• 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 Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
• Phil 4:15You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.
• 2 Jn 1:2for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:
• Heb 2:1Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
• 3 Jn 1:3For I rejoiced greatly, when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.
• Prov 23:23Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
• Luke 1:2even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,
• John 8:25They said therefore to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.
• Luke 9:44“Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”

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