1 John 3:24

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

And he who lays his commands to heart maintains union with Christ, and Christ with him. And by this we know that Christ maintains union with us--by our possession of the Spirit which he gave us.

Cross References

John 10:38

If I am doing it, even though you do not believe me, believe what that work shows; so that you may understand, and understand more and more clearly, that the Father is in union with me, and I with the Father."

John 14:17

The world cannot receive this Spirit, because it does not see him or recognize him, but you recognize him, because he is always with you, and is within you.

John 17:21

That they all may be one--that as thou, Father, art in union with us--and so the world may believe that thou hast sent me as thy Messenger.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Do not you know that you are God's Temple, and that God's Spirit has his home in you?

1 Corinthians 6:19

Again, do not you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you-the Spirit which you have from God?

2 Corinthians 6:16

What agreement can thee be between a temple of God and idols? And we are a temple of the Living God. That is what God meant when he said--'I will dwell among them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

1 Thessalonians 4:8

Therefore he who disregards this warning disregards, not man, but God who gives you his Holy Spirit.

2 Timothy 1:14

Guard by the help of the Holy Spirit, who is within us, the glorious trust that has been committed to you.

1 John 2:24

As for you, let what you were told at the first be always in your thoughts. If, then, what you were told at the first is always in your thoughts, you yourselves will maintain your union both with the Son and with the Father.

1 John 2:3

And by this we know that we have learned to know him--by our laying his commands to heart.

1 John 2:5

but, whenever a man lays his Message to heart, in that man the love of God has indeed reached its perfection. By this we know that we are in union with God--

1 John 2:6

He who professes to maintain union with God is himself bound to live as Christ lived.

1 John 3:22

and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we are laying his commands to heart, and are doing what is pleasing in his sight.

1 John 4:7

Dear friends, let us love one another, because Love comes from God; and every one who loves has received the new Life from God and knows God.