| Geneva Study Bible And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. People's New Testament 2:25 And this is the promise. This promise, even eternal life, is made to all who abide in the Son and in the Father. Wesley's Notes 2:25 He - The Son. Hath promised us - If we abide in him. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 25. this is the promise-Eternal life shall be the permanent consummation of thus abiding in the Son and in the Father (1Jo 2:24). he-Greek, "Himself," Christ, "the Son" (compare 1Jo 1:1). promised-(Joh 3:15, 36; 6:40, 47, 57; 17:2, 3). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 2:24-29 The truth of Christ, abiding in us, is a means to sever from sin, and unites us to the Son of God, Joh 15:3,4. What value should we put upon gospel truth! Thereby the promise of eternal life is made sure. The promise God makes, is suitable to his own greatness, power, and goodness; it is eternal life. The Spirit of truth will not lie; and he teaches all things in the present dispensation, all things necessary to our knowledge of God in Christ, and their glory in the gospel. The apostle repeats the kind words, little children; which denotes his affection. He would persuade by love. Gospel privileges oblige to gospel duties; and those anointed by the Lord Jesus abide with him. The new spiritual nature is from the Lord Christ. He that is constant to the practice of religion in trying times, shows that he is born from above, from the Lord Christ. Then, let us beware of holding the truth in unrighteousness, remembering that those only are born of God, who bear his holy image, and walk in his most righteous ways. | 
