Verse 24

As 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.

Referenced Verses

  • John 14:23 : 23 Jesus replied,“If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.
  • 1 John 1:3 : 3 What 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).
  • 1 John 4:16 : 16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.
  • John 15:9-9 : 9 “Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love. 10 If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
  • 1 John 2:7 : 7 Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have already heard.
  • Rev 3:3 : 3 Therefore, remember what you received and heard, and obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come against you.
  • Rev 3:11 : 11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have so that no one can take away your crown.
  • 1 John 4:13 : 13 By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.
  • John 17:21-24 : 21 that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me. 22 The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one– 23 I in them and you in me– that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me. 24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
  • Phil 4:15 : 15 And as you Philippians know, at the beginning of my gospel ministry, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in this matter of giving and receiving except you alone.
  • Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.
  • Heb 2:1 : 1 Warning Against Drifting Away Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 In my heart I store up your words, so I might not sin against you.
  • Prov 23:23 : 23 Acquire truth and do not sell it– wisdom, and discipline, and understanding.
  • Luke 1:2 : 2 like the accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning.
  • Luke 9:44 : 44 “Take these words to heart, for the Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men.”
  • John 8:25 : 25 So they said to him,“Who are you?” Jesus replied,“What I have told you from the beginning.
  • 2 John 1:2 : 2 because of the truth that resides in us and will be with us forever.
  • 2 John 1:5-6 : 5 Warning Against False Teachers But now I ask you, lady(not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another. 6 (Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.
  • 3 John 1:3 : 3 For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, just as you are living according to the truth.
  • 1 John 1:7 : 7 But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
  • John 15:7 : 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.