1 John 2:24 “As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you.…”

1 John 2:24

As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

World English Bible

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

American Standard Version

As for you, let that abide in you which ye heard from the beginning. If that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you, ye also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father.

Geneva Bible 1599

Let therefore abide in you that same which ye haue heard from the beginning. If that which ye haue heard from the beginning, shall remaine in you, ye also shall continue in the Sonne, and in the Father.

Darby Translation

As for you let that which ye have heard from the beginning abide in you: if what ye have heard from the beginning abides in you, ye also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.

Young's Literal Translation

Ye, then, that which ye heard from the beginning, in you let it remain; if in you may remain that which from the beginning ye did hear, ye also in the Son and in the Father shall remain,

Bible in Basic English

But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.

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Cross references

“abide”

John 15:7 Revelation 3:3 Psalm 119:11 Colossians 3:16 Revelation 3:11 Hebrews 2:1

John 15:7 · BSB

If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

Revelation 3:3 · BSB

Remember, 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.

Psalm 119:11 · BSB

I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.

Colossians 3:16 · BSB

Let 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.

Revelation 3:11 · BSB

I am coming soon. Hold fast to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.

Hebrews 2:1 · BSB

We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

“which”

1 John 2:7 Philippians 4:15 Luke 1:2 John 8:25 2 John 1:5 2 John 1:6

1 John 2:7 · BSB

Beloved, 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.

Philippians 4:15 · BSB

And 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.

Luke 1:2 · BSB

just as they were handed down to us by the initial eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

John 8:25 · BSB

“Who are You?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied.

2 John 1:5 · BSB

And 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.

2 John 1:6 · BSB

And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.

“ye also”

John 14:23 1 John 4:13 1 John 4:16 1 John 1:3 John 17:21–24 1 John 1:7

John 14:23 · BSB

Jesus 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.

1 John 4:13 · BSB

By this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.

1 John 4:16 · BSB

And 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.

1 John 1:3 · BSB

We 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.

John 17:21–24 · BSB

that 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.

1 John 1:7 · BSB

But 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

23Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.

25And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.

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