Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another. And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.
Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.
that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving, except you only.
For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.
because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:
Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.
So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.
just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us,
Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
“Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”
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