Reference: John, First Epistle of
Easton
the fourth of the catholic or "general" epistles. It was evidently written by John the evangelist, and probably also at Ephesus, and when the writer was in advanced age. The purpose of the apostle (1Jo 1:1-4) is to declare the Word of Life to those to whom he writes, in order that they might be united in fellowship with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ. He shows that the means of union with God are, (1) on the part of Christ, his atoning work (1Jo 1:7; 2:2; 3:5; 4:10,14; 5:11-12) and his advocacy (1Jo 2:1); and (2), on the part of man, holiness (1Jo 1:6), obedience (1Jo 2:3), purity (1Jo 3:3), faith (1Jo 3:23; 4:3; 5:5), and love (1Jo 2:7-8; 3:14; 4:7; 5:1).
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It is what existed from the beginning, that we announce; what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have beheld, and touched with our hands; it is the very message of life??2 for life has been revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it and announce to you that eternal life that was with the Father and has been revealed to us??3 it is what we have seen and heard that we announce to you also, so that you may share our fellowship, for our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ,
and we write this to you to make your happiness complete.
If we say, "We have fellowship with him," and yet live in darkness, we are lying and not living the truth. But if we live in the light, just as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.
My dear children, I am writing you this so that you may not sin; yet if anyone does sin, we have in Jesus Christ one who is upright and will intercede for us with the Father. He is himself an atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the whole world. read more. This is how we can be sure that we know him??y obeying his commands.
Dear friends, it is no new command that I am writing you, but an old one that you have had from the beginning. That old command is the same as the message you have heard. Yet it is a new command that I am writing you; it is newly realized in him and in yourselves, for the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.
And everyone who possesses this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as he is.
You know that he appeared to take our sins away, and that there is no sin in him.
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love is still in death.
His command is this??hat we are to believe in his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he has commanded us to do.
and any inspired utterance that does not acknowledge Jesus does not come from God; it is the inspiration of the Antichrist. You have heard that it was coming, and here it is already in the world.
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God, and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.
The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
We have seen and can testify that the Father has sent the Son to be Savior of the world.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves those who are his children.
For who is there that is victorious over the world except the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
And that testimony is that God has given us eternal life, and that this life is found in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever has not the Son has not life.
Morish
This was doubtless written after the epistles of Peter and Paul. Morally John's writings have their place when the church as a testimony had failed, and the 'last time' had arrived. The three Epistles come in between the Gospel of John and the Revelation. The real remedy for the evils spoken of is the coming in of the Lord as the faithful witness.
Near the end of the first century the error had arisen that Christ had no real body
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But the man who had been cured did not know who it was, for as there was a crowd there, Jesus had left the place.
My dear children, I am writing you this so that you may not sin; yet if anyone does sin, we have in Jesus Christ one who is upright and will intercede for us with the Father.
I am writing to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven for his sake.
Now, dear children, keep in union with him, so that if he appears, we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame when he comes.
All who obey his commands keep in union with him, and he does with them; and this is how we know that he keeps in union with us??y the Spirit which he has given us.
This is the way we know that we keep in union with him and he does with us??ecause he has given us some of his Spirit.