1 John 2:24

New International Reader's Version

Make sure that you don’t forget what you have heard from the beginning. Then you will remain joined to the Son and to the Father.

Cross References

Psalm 119:11

I have hidden your word in my heart so that I won’t sin against you.

Proverbs 23:23

Buy the truth and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, instruction and understanding as well.

Luke 1:2

Reports of these things were handed down to us. There were people who saw these things for themselves from the beginning. They saw them and then passed the word on.

Luke 9:44

“Listen carefully to what I am about to tell you. The Son of Man is going to be handed over to men.”

John 14:23

Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them. We will come to them and make our home with them.

John 15:7

If you remain joined to me and my words remain in you, ask for anything you wish. And it will be done for you.

John 6:56

Anyone who eats my body and drinks my blood remains in me. And I remain in them.

John 8:25

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

Philippians 4:15

And you believers at Philippi know what happened when I left Macedonia. Not one church helped me in the matter of giving and receiving. You were the only one that did. That was in the early days when you first heard the good news.

Colossians 3:16

Let the message about Christ live among you like a rich treasure. Teach and correct one another wisely. Teach one another by singing psalms and hymns and songs from the Spirit. Sing to God with thanks in your hearts.

Hebrews 2:1

So we must pay the most careful attention to what we have heard. Then we will not drift away from it.

Hebrews 3:14

We belong to Christ if we hold tightly to the faith we had at first. But we must hold it tightly until the end.

1 John 1:3

We announce to you what we have seen and heard. We do it so you can share life together with us. And we share life with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

1 John 1:7

But suppose we walk in the light, just as he is in the light. Then we share life with one another. And the blood of Jesus, his Son, makes us pure from all sin.

1 John 2:7

Dear friends, I’m not writing you a new command. Instead, I’m writing one you have heard before. You have had it since the beginning.

1 John 3:24

The one who obeys God’s commands remains joined to him. And he remains joined to them. Here is how we know that God lives in us. We know it because of the Holy Spirit he gave us.

1 John 4:13

Here’s how we know that we are joined to him and he to us. He has given us his Holy Spirit.

1 John 4:15

God lives in anyone who agrees that Jesus is the Son of God. This kind of person remains joined to God.

1 John 4:16

So we know that God loves us. We depend on it. God is love. Anyone who leads a life of love is joined to God. And God is joined to them.

2 John 1:2

I love you because of the truth that is alive in us. This truth will be with us forever.

2 John 1:9

Suppose someone thinks they know more than we do. So they don’t follow Christ’s teaching. Then that person doesn’t belong to God. But whoever follows Christ’s teaching belongs to the Father and the Son.

3 John 1:3

Some believers came to me and told me that you are faithful to the truth. They told me that you continue to live by it. This news gave me great joy.

Revelation 3:11

‘I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have. Then no one will take away your crown.

Revelation 3:3

So remember what you have been taught and have heard. Hold firmly to it. Turn away from your sins. If you don’t wake up, I will come like a thief. You won’t know when I will come to you.