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Inductive Bible study on 1 John 3:1-10. Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on 1 John chapter 3.
6 sie 2024 · This week we are studying 1 John 3:1-10. This pairs one of the more hopeful texts in the canon (1 John 3:1-3) with one of the more perplexing and possibly troubling ones (1 John 3:4-10). So we’ll have our work cut out for us.
1. (1 John 3:1) The glory of God’s love. Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. a.
Whereas John wrote in 1 John 3:1 that those of the world do not know God or the children of God, in 1 John 3:10, John wrote how we can recognize the children of the devil as Jesus and the Bible define them. First, the children of the devil do not do what is right; therefore, they are not righteous.
13 gru 2012 · John defines sin as lawlessness. Many would claim that since we are under grace and not under the law, the law has no authority over us. It is important to remember that John is writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. So not only John but God says in very clear terms sin is lawlessness.
How can that be if John wrote in the 1-John 1, 'If we confess our sins...'? Then in 1-John 2 John says, 'My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin, yet if anyone sin we have an advocate, Jesus Christ the Righteous.'
7 sie 2024 · 1 John 3:1-10, Bible study, Christian ideas and practices, faith hope and love, reading the Bible, sin, thinking about the Bible.