1 John 2:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • John 14:23 : 23 Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.
  • 1 John 1:3 : 3 We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:
  • 1 John 4:16 : 16 And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.
  • John 15:9-9 : 9 Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love. 10 If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.
  • 1 John 2:7 : 7 My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.
  • Rev 3:3 : 3 Keep in mind, then, the teaching which was given to you, and be ruled by it and have a change of heart. If then you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will have no knowledge of the hour when I will come on you.
  • Rev 3:11 : 11 I come quickly: keep that which you have, so that no one may take your crown.
  • 1 John 4:13 : 13 And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.
  • John 17:21-24 : 21 May they all be one! Even as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so let them be in us, so that all men may come to have faith that you sent me. 22 And the glory which you have given to me I have given to them, so that they may be one even as we are one; 23 I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you. 24 Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.
  • Phil 4:15 : 15 And you have knowledge, Philippians, that when the good news first came to you, when I went away from Macedonia, no church took part with me in the business of giving to the saints, but you only;
  • Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.
  • Heb 2:1 : 1 For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.
  • Prov 23:23 : 23 Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.
  • Luke 1:2 : 2 As they were handed down to us by those who saw them from the first and were preachers of the word,
  • Luke 9:44 : 44 Let these words go deep into your ears, for the Son of man will be given up into the hands of men.
  • John 8:25 : 25 Then they said to him, Who are you? Jesus said, What I said to you from the first.
  • 2 John 1:2 : 2 Because of this true knowledge which is in us, and will be with us for ever:
  • 2 John 1:5-6 : 5 And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another. 6 And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.
  • 3 John 1:3 : 3 For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in the true way.
  • 1 John 1:7 : 7 But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.
  • John 15:7 : 7 If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.

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  • 1 John 2:20-23
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    20 And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.

    21 I have not sent you this letter because you have no knowledge of what is true, but because you have knowledge, and because that which is false has nothing in common with that which is true.

    22 Who is false but he who says that Jesus is not the Christ? He is the Antichrist who has no belief in the Father or the Son.

    23 He who has no belief in the Son has not the Father: he who makes clear his belief in the Son has the Father.

  • 1 John 2:25
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    25 And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life.

  • 2 John 1:2-9
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    2 Because of this true knowledge which is in us, and will be with us for ever:

    3 May grace, mercy, and peace be with us from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in all true love.

    4 It gave me great joy to see some of your children walking in the true way, even as we were ordered to do by the Father.

    5 And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.

    6 And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.

    7 Because a number of false teachers have gone out into the world, who do not give witness that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Such a one is a false teacher and Antichrist.

    8 Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.

    9 Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.

  • 1 John 2:5-8
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    5 But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:

    6 He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.

    7 My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.

    8 Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.

  • 1 John 2:27-28
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    27 As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.

    28 And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.

  • 1 John 3:23-24
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    23 And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.

    24 He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.

  • 1 John 1:1-4
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    1 That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life

    2 (And the life was made clear to us, and we have seen it and are witnessing to it and giving you word of that eternal life which was with the Father and was seen by us);

    3 We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:

    4 And we are writing these things to you so that our joy may be made complete.

  • 1 John 2:13-15
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    13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil One. I have sent a letter to you, children, because you have knowledge of the Father.

    14 I have sent a letter to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I have sent a letter to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is in you, and because you have overcome the Evil One.

    15 Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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    15 Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.

    16 And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

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    11 Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;

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    14 But see that you keep to the teaching you have been given and the things of which you are certain, conscious of who has been your teacher;

  • 1 John 5:11-13
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    11 And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

    12 He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.

    13 I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.

  • John 15:9-10
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    9 Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.

    10 If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.

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    27 And you, in addition, will give witness because you have been with me from the first.

  • John 15:4
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    4 Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.

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    17 And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.

  • John 15:7
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    7 If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.

  • 1 John 3:6
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    6 Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.

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    20 And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

    21 My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.

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    15 So then, brothers, be strong in purpose, and keep the teaching which has been given to you by word or by letter from us.

  • John 8:35
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    35 Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does.

  • 2 Tim 1:13
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    13 Keep the form of those true words which you had from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

  • 1 John 2:1
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    1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:

  • John 3:36
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    36 He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him.

  • Rev 2:25
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    25 But what you have, keep safe till I come.