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Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.
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Stick to the Original Gospel
Commentators emphasize that John's command, "let that abide in you which ye heard from the beginning," is a call to steadfastly hold to the foundational apostolic teaching about Jesus. In a world of new and deceptive ideas (the "antichrists"), believers are urged to remain grounded in the original, unchanging truth of the gospel, which, as Charles Spurgeon notes, is sufficient and needs no later correction.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Let that therefore abide in you. Adhere steadfastly to it; let the truth obtain a permanent lodgement in the soul. In view of its great im…
As for you (υμεις). Emphatic proleptic position before the relative ο and subject of ηκουσατε, a familiar idiom in Joh 8:45; 10:29…
19th Century
Anglican
[8] THE MANIFESTATIONS OF DARKNESS (1 John 2:18–28).
[a] Signs by which they should know the forerunners of the las…
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Baptist
Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye…
At this point John shifts his attention to his readers. They, in contrast to the antichrists, are exhorted to make certain that what they heard “fr…
16th Century
Protestant
Let that therefore abide in you. He adds an exhortation to the previous doctrine; and to give it more weight, he points out the fruit they…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Let that therefore abide in you Meaning the word of God, (1 John 2:14); the Gospel of Christ, which ther…
The truth of Christ, abiding in us, is a means to sever from sin, and unites us to the Son of God (John 15:3, 4). What value should we …
