Reference: John, First Epistle of
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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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What existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we observed and touched with our own hands this is the Word of life! This life was revealed to us, and we have seen it and testify about it. We declare to you this eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us. read more. What we have seen and heard we declare to you so that you, too, can have fellowship with us. Now this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus, the Messiah. We are writing these things so that our joy may be full.
If we claim that we have fellowship with him but keep living in darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth. But if we keep living in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
My little children, I'm writing these things to you so that you might not sin. Yet if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father Jesus, the Messiah, one who is righteous. It is he who is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world's. read more. This is how we can be sure that we have come to know him: if we continually keep his commandments.
Dear friends, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning. This old commandment is the word you have heard. On the other hand, I am writing to you a new commandment that is truly in him and in you. For the darkness is fading away, and the true light is already shining.
And everyone who has this hope based on him keeps himself pure, just as the Messiah is pure.
You know that the Messiah was revealed to take away sins, and there is not any sin in him.
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love one another. The person who does not love remains spiritually dead.
And this is his commandment: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus the Messiah, and to love one another as he commanded us.
But every spirit who does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist. You have heard that he is coming, and now he is already in the world.
Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.
This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
We have seen for ourselves and can testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God, and everyone who loves the parent also loves the child.
Who overcomes the world? Is it not the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
This is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is found in his Son. The person who has the Son has this life. The person who does not have the Son of God does not have this life.
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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 one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.
My little children, I'm writing these things to you so that you might not sin. Yet if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father Jesus, the Messiah, one who is righteous.
I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.
Even now, little children, abide in him. Then, when he appears, we will have confidence and will not turn away from him in shame when he comes.
The person who keeps his commandments abides in God, and God abides in him. This is how we can be sure that he remains in us: he has given us his Spirit.
This is how we know that we abide in him and he in us: he has given us his Spirit.