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• 1 John 2Bible

  1 John 2 presents Jesus Christ as the advocate and the propitiation for sins and addresses keeping the commandments, loving one's brother, the exhortation not to love the world, the warning about antichrists, and the charge to abide in him.

• 1 John 1Bible

  First John 1 opens the letter with the testimony of witnesses who personally saw and heard "the Word of life." It then presents the message that "God is light" and addresses fellowship through walking in the light, the confession of sin, and forgiveness.

• 2 John 1Bible

  2 John 1 is the whole of 2 John, a book consisting of a single chapter. In this short letter "the elder" urges the elect lady and her children to love one another and warns them against deceivers who deny that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.

• 1 John 5Bible

  1 John 5 is the final chapter of the First Epistle of John. It addresses the faith and love of those born of God, the witness of the Spirit, the water, and the blood to the Son, the assurance of eternal life, and prayer. It closes the letter with an exhortation to keep away from idols.

• 1 John 3Bible

  1 John 3 teaches that the children of God are revealed by a life of doing righteousness and loving one another, and it presents Christ's laying down of His life as the standard of love.

• 3 John 1Bible

  3 John 1 constitutes the whole of the single-chapter book of 3 John. It is a brief personal letter in which the elder commends Gaius for showing hospitality to traveling evangelists who were strangers, rebukes Diotrephes for hindering them, and recommends Demetrius.

• 1 John 4Bible

  1 John 4 is the chapter of 1 John that sets out the criteria for discerning spirits and teaches that, because God is love, those who have received his love ought to love one another.

• The Seven Signs of the Gospel of JohnBible

  The seven signs of the Gospel of John are seven events recorded in John 1–12, a Gospel that calls Jesus' miracles "signs." John presents these events as indications that reveal who Jesus is and lead people to faith.

• Prologue of JohnBible

  The Prologue of John is John 1:1–18, the opening section of the Gospel of John, which declares that the "Word" (Logos), who existed from the beginning, became flesh and came into the world.

• 1 John 5:16Bible Verses

  First John 5:16 urges believers to pray for a brother who is sinning, while setting apart a "sin unto death." Because the verse does not identify that sin, it has been interpreted in several ways, including as apostasy, as physical death, and as mortal (grave) sin.

• 1 John 4:20–21Bible Verses

  This passage declares that anyone who claims to love God while hating his brother is a liar, showing that love for God and love for one's brother cannot be separated. It is frequently cited as a key text for measuring the genuineness of faith by the practice of love.

• 1 John 3:17–18Bible Verses

  This passage teaches that if a person who has material possessions ignores a brother in need, the love of God cannot be said to dwell in him, and it urges believers to love not in word but in deed and in truth. It is frequently cited in discussions of the relationship between faith and practice and of almsgiving.

• 1 John 3:8Bible Verses

  This verse states that whoever commits sin is of the devil and that the Son of God appeared in order to destroy the works of the devil. It is frequently cited in discussions of the purpose of the Incarnation, sanctification, and the believer's relationship to sin.

• 1 John 5:21Bible Verses

  1 John 5:21 is the final verse of the First Epistle of John. In it the author addresses his readers as "little children" and urges them to keep themselves from idols. Because this closing seems abrupt and not directly connected to what precedes it, interpreters differ over what the "idols" refer to.

• 2 John 1:6Bible Verses

  Second John 1:6 states that love consists in walking according to God's commandments, and that the commandment is to walk in love, as the readers have heard from the beginning. The verse is frequently cited for defining love and obedience in terms of each other.

• 1 John 4:18Bible Verses

  1 John 4:18 is a verse teaching that when God's love is made perfect in the believer, the fear of judgment is removed. It is frequently cited in discussions of the assurance of salvation and in connection with the Wesleyan doctrine of "perfect love."

• MarkPeople

  Mark is a figure of the early church who appears in the New Testament book of Acts and in the Epistles. In Acts he is called "John, whose surname was Mark," and he worked alongside Paul, Barnabas, and Peter. He is traditionally regarded as the author of the Gospel of Mark.

• J. Gresham MachenPeople

  John Gresham Machen (1881–1937) was an American Presbyterian New Testament scholar. He criticized liberal theology in *Christianity and Liberalism* and founded Westminster Theological Seminary and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

• DiotrephesPeople

  Diotrephes was an early Christian mentioned in 3 John. He is described as one who loved to have the preeminence, refused to receive the elder's letter and his workers, and cast out of the church those members who wished to welcome them.

• Mary, Mother of MarkPeople

  Mary, the mother of Mark, was a member of the Jerusalem church mentioned in Acts 12. She owned the house to which Peter went after his release from prison, where many people had gathered to pray.