1 John 3:21

3:21 Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,

1 John 4:11

4:11 Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.


tn Grk “and.” The Greek conjunction καί (kai) introduces the apodosis of the conditional sentence.

tn This is a first-class conditional sentence with εἰ (ei) + aorist indicative in the protasis. Reality is assumed for the sake of argument with a first-class condition.