1 John 1:5
God Is Light, So We Must Walk in the Light
1:5 Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.
1 John 2:22
2:22 Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ
? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.
1 John 3:1
3:1 (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children – and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.
1 John 3:8
3:8 The one who practices sin is of the devil,
because the devil has been sinning
from the beginning. For this purpose
the Son of God was revealed: to destroy
the works of the devil.
1 John 3:10
3:10 By this
the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian
– is not of God.
1 John 3:17
3:17 But whoever has the world’s possessions
and sees his fellow Christian
in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God
reside
in such a person?
1 John 3:23-24
3:23 Now
this is his commandment:
that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave
us the commandment.
3:24 And the person who keeps his commandments resides
in God,
and God
in him. Now by this
we know that God
resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.
1 John 4:3
4:3 but
every spirit that does not confess
Jesus
is not from God, and this is the spirit
of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.
1 John 4:9-10
4:9 By this
the love of God
is revealed in us:
that God has sent his one and only
Son into the world so that we may live through him.
4:10 In 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.
1 John 5:4
5:4 because
everyone
who has been fathered by God
conquers
the world.
Testimony About the Son
This is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith.
1 John 5:9
5:9 If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.
1 John 5:16
5:16 If
anyone sees his fellow Christian
committing a sin not resulting in death,
he should ask, and God
will grant
life to the person who commits a sin not resulting in death.
There is a sin resulting in death.
I do not say that he should ask about that.