1 John 2:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father:(but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

1 John 2:23 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 4:15
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
John 8:19
Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
John 5:23
That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
John 10:30
I and my Father are one.
2 John 1:9-11
Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 20-27)

Here, I. The apostle encourages the disciples (to whom he writes) in these dangerous times, in this hour of seducers; he encourages them in the assurance of their stability in this day of apostasy: But you have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things. We see, 1. The blessing wherewith they were enriched—an unguent from heaven: You have an unction. True Christians are anointed ones, t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 23)

23. Greek, “Every one who denieth the Son, hath not the Father either” (1Jo 4:2, 3): “inasmuch as God hath given Himself to us wholly to be enjoyed in Christ” [Calvin]. he--that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. These words ought not to be in italics, as though they were not in the original: for the oldest Greek manuscripts have them. hath--namely, in his abiding possession as his “porti…