1 John 2:24

Good News Translation

Be sure, then, to keep in your hearts the message you heard from the beginning. If you keep that message, then you will always live in union with the Son and the Father.

Cross References

Psalm 119:11

I keep your law in my heart, so that I will not sin against you.

Proverbs 23:23

Truth, wisdom, learning, and good sense—these are worth paying for, but too valuable for you to sell.

Luke 1:2

They wrote what we have been told by those who saw these things from the beginning and who proclaimed the message.

Luke 9:44

“Don't forget what I am about to tell you! The Son of Man is going to be handed over to the power of human beings.”

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and my Father and I will come to them and live with them.

John 15:7

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then you will ask for anything you wish, and you shall have it.

John 6:56

Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them.

John 8:25

“Who are you?” they asked him. Jesus answered, “What I have told you from the very beginning.

Philippians 4:15

You Philippians know very well that when I left Macedonia in the early days of preaching the Good News, you were the only church to help me; you were the only ones who shared my profits and losses.

Colossians 3:16

Christ's message in all its richness must live in your hearts. Teach and instruct one another with all wisdom. Sing psalms, hymns, and sacred songs; sing to God with thanksgiving in your hearts.

Hebrews 2:1

That is why we must hold on all the more firmly to the truths we have heard, so that we will not be carried away.

Hebrews 3:14

For we are all partners with Christ if we hold firmly to the end the confidence we had at the beginning.

1 John 1:3

What we have seen and heard we announce to you also, so that you will join with us in the fellowship that we have with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

1 John 1:7

But if we live in the light—just as he is in the light—then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from every sin.

1 John 2:7

My dear friends, this command I am writing you is not new; it is the old command, the one you have had from the very beginning. The old command is the message you have already heard.

1 John 3:24

Those who obey God's commands live in union with God and God lives in union with them. And because of the Spirit that God has given us we know that God lives in union with us.

1 John 4:13

We are sure that we live in union with God and that he lives in union with us, because he has given us his Spirit.

1 John 4:15

If we declare that Jesus is the Son of God, we live in union with God and God lives in union with us.

1 John 4:16

And we ourselves know and believe the love which God has for us. God is love, and those who live in love live in union with God and God lives in union with them.

2 John 1:2

because the truth remains in us and will be with us forever.

2 John 1:9

Anyone who does not stay with the teaching of Christ, but goes beyond it, does not have God. Whoever does stay with the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

3 John 1:3

I was so happy when some Christians arrived and told me how faithful you are to the truth—just as you always live in the truth.

Revelation 3:11

I am coming soon. Keep safe what you have, so that no one will rob you of your victory prize.

Revelation 3:3

Remember, then, what you were taught and what you heard; obey it and turn from your sins. If you do not wake up, I will come upon you like a thief, and you will not even know the time when I will come.