23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
23 No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.
23 No one who denies the Son has any part with the Father, but affirming the Son is an embrace of the Father as well.
23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
23 Anyone who denies the Son doesn't have the Father, either. But anyone who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
15 And if we know that he hears us-whatever we ask-we know that we have what we asked of him.
15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
15 And if we're confident that he's listening, we know that what we've asked for is as good as ours.
15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.
15 And since we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for.
(Read 1 John 5:13-17)
Upon all this evidence, it is but right that we believe on the name of the Son of God. Believers have eternal life in the covenant of the gospel. Then let us thankfully receive the record of Scripture. Always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that our labour is not in vain in the Lord. The Lord Christ invites us to come to him in all circumstances, with our supplications and requests, notwithstanding the sin that besets us. Our prayers must always be offered in submission to the will of God. In some things they are speedily answered; in others they are granted in the best manner, though not as requested. We ought to pray for others, as well as for ourselves. There are sins that war against spiritual life in the soul, and the life above. We cannot pray that the sins of the impenitent and unbelieving should, while they are such, be forgiven them; or that mercy, which supposes the forgiveness of sins, should be granted to them, while they wilfully continue such. But we may pray for their repentance, for their being enriched with faith in Christ, and thereupon for all other saving mercies. We should pray for others, as well as for ourselves, beseeching the Lord to pardon and recover the fallen, as well as to relieve the tempted and afflicted. And let us be truly thankful that no sin, of which any one truly repents, is unto death.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 John 2:23
Commentary on 1 John 2:18-23
(Read 1 John 2:18-23)
Every man is an antichrist, who denies the Person, or any of the offices of Christ; and in denying the Son, he denies the Father also, and has no part in his favour while he rejects his great salvation. Let this prophecy that seducers would rise in the Christian world, keep us from being seduced. The church knows not well who are its true members, and who are not, but thus true Christians were proved, and rendered more watchful and humble. True Christians are anointed ones; their names expresses this: they are anointed with grace, with gifts and spiritual privileges, by the Holy Spirit of grace. The great and most hurtful lies that the father of lies spreads in the world, usually are falsehoods and errors relating to the person of Christ. The unction from the Holy One, alone can keep us from delusions. While we judge favourably of all who trust in Christ as the Divine Saviour, and obey his word, and seek to live in union with them, let us pity and pray for those who deny the Godhead of Christ, or his atonement, and the new-creating work of the Holy Ghost. Let us protest against such antichristian doctrine, and keep from them as much as we may.