1 John
Fellowship with God through love and obedience
"God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them."
1 John 4:16
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About the Book
IntroTo provide assurance of eternal life to genuine believers, to counter Docetic teaching by insisting on the full humanity and blood of Jesus, and to call believers to love one another.
Walking in Light, Love, and Life
Ch. 1-5John writes to confirm the community's assurance of eternal life by three tests: walking in the light, keeping the commands, and loving one another — all grounded in the reality of the Incarnation.
1 John's three tests of genuine faith — light (confession and obedience), love (love for brothers and sisters), and life (confessing Jesus Christ as the incarnate Son of God) — form the most complete framework for spiritual self-examination in the New Testament.