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What is it that makes us slow to believe the love of God? Sometimes it is pride, which demands to prove itself worthy of the love of God before it will receive it. Sometimes it is unbelief, which cannot trust the love of God when it sees the hurt and pain of life.
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.
14 kwi 2024 · In 3:4, 1 John makes an abrupt and sharp contrast between Jesus’ sinlessness and human sinfulness: 1 “Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.” The severity of this indictment is troubling because who other than Jesus can say they do not commit sin ( hamartia )?
7 sie 2024 · 1 John 3:1-10, Bible study, Christian ideas and practices, commentary, exegesis, meaning, reading the Bible, sin
A major implication of being a child of God is that we are to love one another (3:11–24). First John 3:1–10 can be further subdivided into two main sections. Verses 1 through 3 focus on God's love, and how that love results in believers becoming children of God.
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.'
