The Letters · New Testament
1 John
1 John is book 62 of 66 and belongs to the Letters in the New Testament. It has 5 chapters, each with source-checked General, Historical and Literary context. 2 people are indexed in its passages.
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Chapters
- 1 John 1: Fellowship in the light
The opening testimony invites its readers into fellowship with the Father and Jesus Christ. The message that God is light leads to a test of what… - 1 John 2: 1 John 2: tests of knowing him, the old commandment, and many antichrists
The writer says he writes so that his little children will not sin, and that if anyone does sin there is an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ… - 1 John 3: 1 John 3: children of God, children of the devil, and love in deed
The chapter opens by asking the readers to look at the love that lets them be called the sons of God, and says the world does not know them because… - 1 John 4: 1 John 4: trying the spirits, and love as the test of knowing God
The readers are told not to believe every spirit but to try the spirits, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. The test given is… - 1 John 5: 1 John 5: faith that overcomes, the witness, and knowing that you have life
Believing that Jesus is the Christ marks someone born of God, and loving the one who begat carries loving the one begotten. Loving the children of…
