Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1John+005   1 John Chapter 5 (ESV) 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3 For this […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1John+004   1 John Chapter 4  (ESV) 13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1John+003   1 John Chapter 3  (ESV) 11 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1John+002   1 John Chapter 2  (ESV) 12 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake. 13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1John+001   1 JOHN INTRODUCTION The letter known as 1 John was sent to a group of believers who were in the midst of an unsettling situation. Some of them had abandoned faith in Jesus the Messiah as it had first been taught to them. They found the proclamation that God […]