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1 John 2:23 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also. "

1 John 2:23

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21 I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

23 Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

24 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.

25 This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.

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"One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him."

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"But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:"

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"he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked."

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