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1 John 2:23
1 John 2:23 is verse 23 of 1 John chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.
King James Version
Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
World English Bible
Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.
MT omits: He who confesses the Son has the Father also.
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1 John 2:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible
21 I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth.
22 Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.
23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.
24 As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 John 2:22Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.
1 John 4:15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
Matthew 11:27All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
Luke 10:22All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”
John 5:23so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
John 8:19“Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”
John 10:30I and the Father are one.”
John 14:9Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
John 14:10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.
John 15:23Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.
John 15:24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.
2 John 1:9Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son.
2 John 1:10If anyone comes to you but does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home or even greet him.
2 John 1:11Whoever greets such a person shares in his evil deeds.