Author: Matthew Jones
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First John 3:7-8: God is Righteous
Practicing Righteousness or Sin is a Result of Paternity 3:1 Look at the kind of love the Father has given to us, that we are called God’s children. And we really are! Because of this the world does not know us. And it is no wonder, because it did not know Him. 3:2 Beloved, right…
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First John 3:4-6: God is Righteous
Practicing Righteousness or Sin is a Result of Paternity 3:1 Look at the kind of love the Father has given to us, that we are called God’s children. And we really are! Because of this the world does not know us. And it is no wonder, because it did not know Him. 3:2 Beloved, right…
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First John 3:1-3: God is Righteous
Practicing Righteousness or Sin is a Result of Paternity 3:1 Look at the kind of love the Father has given to us, that we are called God’s children. And we really are! Because of this the world does not know us. And it is no wonder, because it did not know Him. 3:2 Beloved, right…
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First John 2:29 / Overview: God is Righteous
Second Proclamation Section: God is Righteous 2:29 If you know that ˹God˺ is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of ˹God˺. 3:1 Look at the kind of love the Father has given to us, that we are called God’s children. And we really are! Because of this the world…
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First John 2:26-28: God is Light
Warning: Walking in the Light is Not Compatible with Denying the Son 2:18 Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that Antichrist is coming, even now many have become antichrists. From this we know that it is the last hour. 2:19 They separated from us, but they were not part of…
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First John 2:21-25: God is Light
Warning: Walking in the Light is Not Compatible with Denying the Son 2:18 Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that Antichrist is coming, even now many have become antichrists. From this we know that it is the last hour. 2:19 They separated from us, but they were not part of…
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First John 2:18-20: God is Light
Warning: Walking in the Light is Not Compatible with Denying the Son! 2:18 Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that Antichrist is coming, even now many have become antichrists. From this we know that it is the last hour. 2:19 They separated from us, but they were not part of…
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First John 2:15-17: God is Light
Warning: Walking in the Light is not Compatible with Love for the World! 2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him, 2:16 because all that is worldly – The craving for what the flesh desires,The craving for what…
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First John 2:12-14: God is Light
Assurance to the Readers that they are Walking in the Light 2:12 I am writing to you, little children, to affirm that your sins are forgiven you on account of ˹Jesus’˺ name. 2:13a I am writing to you, fathers, to affirm that you know the One who is from the beginning. 2:13b I am writing…
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First John 2:9-11: God is Light
Walking in the Darkness vs. Walking in the Light 2:9 The one who says, “I am in the light,” and yet hates his fellow believer, is still in the darkness. 2:10 The one who loves his fellow believer abides in the light and there is nothing in him to cause others to stumble. 2:11 But…
Koine Foundations 