^2:24As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain⁵¹ in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

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1 John 2:24–25: 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. And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.

Footnotes

51 The word translated “remain” may also be translated “reside” (3 times in 2:24). See also the notes on the translation of the Greek verb μένω (menō) in and in . Here the word can really have both nuances of “residing” and “remaining” and it is impossible for the English reader to catch both nuances if the translation provides only one. This occurs three times in 2:24.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

What you have heard from the beginning is to remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.

NLTNew Living Translation

So you must remain faithful to what you have been taught from the beginning. If you do, you will remain in fellowship with the Son and with the Father.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

KJV 1900King James Version

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 also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

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