1 John 2:23

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 John 4:15 : 15 If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.
  • John 8:19 : 19 Then they began asking him,“Who is your father?” Jesus answered,“You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.”
  • John 10:30 : 30 The Father and I are one.”
  • John 14:9-9 : 9 Jesus replied,“Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say,‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.
  • John 15:23-24 : 23 The one who hates me hates my Father too. 24 If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.
  • 1 John 2:22 : 22 Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.
  • 1 John 5:1 : 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.
  • 2 John 1:9-9 : 9 Everyone who goes on ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house and do not give him any greeting, 11 because the person who gives him a greeting shares in his evil deeds.
  • Matt 11:27 : 27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.
  • Luke 10:22 : 22 All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”
  • John 5:23 : 23 so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 1 John 2:21-22
    2 verses
    84%

    21I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

    22Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.

  • 2 John 1:9
    79%

    9Everyone who goes on ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.

  • 1 John 2:24
    79%

    24As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

  • 1 John 5:9-13
    5 verses
    79%

    9If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.

    10(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)

    11And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

    12The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.

    13Assurance of Eternal Life I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

  • 1 John 4:15
    77%

    15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.

  • John 5:22-23
    2 verses
    77%

    22Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

    23so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

  • Matt 10:32-33
    2 verses
    75%

    32“Whoever, then, acknowledges me before people, I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

    33But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.

  • John 3:35-36
    2 verses
    74%

    35The Father loves the Son and has placed all things under his authority.

    36The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.

  • Matt 11:27
    72%

    27All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

  • Luke 10:22
    72%

    22All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”

  • John 15:23
    71%

    23The one who hates me hates my Father too.

  • John 6:46
    71%

    46(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God– he has seen the Father.)

  • 1 John 1:3
    71%

    3What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us(and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).

  • John 8:19
    71%

    19Then they began asking him,“Who is your father?” Jesus answered,“You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.”

  • 1 John 4:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,

    3but every spirit that refuses to confess Jesus, that spirit is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.

  • John 1:18
    70%

    18No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.

  • 2 John 1:7
    70%

    7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

  • 1 John 5:1
    70%

    1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

  • 1 John 2:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4The one who says“I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

    5But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

  • Luke 12:9
    69%

    9But the one who denies me before men will be denied before God’s angels.

  • 1 John 3:6
    69%

    6Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

  • 1 John 2:15
    69%

    15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

  • 1 John 3:1
    69%

    1(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

  • 1 John 5:20
    69%

    20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

  • John 3:18
    68%

    18The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

  • John 14:7
    68%

    7If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”

  • John 8:55
    68%

    55Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

  • 1 John 5:5
    68%

    5Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

  • John 14:10-11
    2 verses
    68%

    10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

    11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

  • John 5:19
    68%

    19So Jesus answered them,“I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

  • John 10:37
    68%

    37If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.

  • John 14:24
    68%

    24The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

  • John 5:26
    68%

    26For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

  • 1 John 3:10
    68%

    10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness– the one who does not love his fellow Christian– is not of God.

  • 1 John 1:10
    67%

    10If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

  • John 5:37
    67%

    37And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

  • 1 John 2:28-29
    2 verses
    67%

    28Children of God And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.

    29If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

  • 1 John 1:6
    67%

    6If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.