1 John Bible Study, Day 12 Today’s passage: 1 John 2:26–29 Focus verse: The anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. (1 John 2:27) Our verse for today contains two words that we’ve already read in 1 John 2: anointing and remain. In verse twenty, John reminds us […]
1 John Bible Study, Day 11 Today’s passage: 1 John 2:24–25 Focus verse: And this is what he promised us—eternal life. (1 John 2:25) After warning us to be on alert for the antichrist, John encourages us to make sure we hold on to the good news of Jesus—on what we heard from the beginning. We started […]
1 John Bible Study, Day 10 Today’s passage: 1 John 2:18–23 Focus verse: As you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. (1 John 2:18) After John tells us to not love the world, he warns us about antichrists too. Anti means against and Christ means Messiah. Therefore, an antichrist is […]
1 John Bible Study, Day 9 Today’s passage: 1 John 2:15–17 Focus verse: Do not love the world or anything in the world. (1 John 2:15) John reminds his audience to not love the world or anything in it. Loving what the world offers is incompatible with loving God, as Jesus commands us to do. We can’t […]
1 John Bible Study, Day 8 Today’s passage: 1 John 2:7–11 Focus verse: Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. (1 John 2:10) John launches into a discussion about an old command and not a new one. Then he pivots just as quickly […]
1 John Bible Study, Day 7 Today’s passage: 1 John 2:3–6 Focus verse: Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did. (1 John 2:6) Today’s passage talks about knowing God and keeping his commands. If we claim to know God and don’t do what he says, we’re only deluding ourselves from the truth, and […]
1 John Bible Study, Day 6 Today’s passage: 1 John 2:1–2 Focus verse: But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. (1 John 2:1) John’s desire for us is that we do not sin. That’s one of the reasons he writes his letter. Yet if anyone does sin, he […]
1 John Bible Study, Day 5 Today’s passage: 1 John 1:8–10 Focus verse: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9) As a young teen, I had a Sunday school teacher who claimed he sometimes would go an entire day […]
1 John Bible Study, Day 4 Today’s passage: 1 John 1:5–7 Focus verse: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. (1 John 1:5) As John continues in his letter, he moves from fellowship and joy, to talking about the light. God is light. That is, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit give us […]
1 John Bible Study, Day 3 Today’s passage: 1 John 1:4 Focus verse: We write this to make our joy complete. (1 John 1:4) John uses the pronoun we a lot in this letter, over forty times in its short five chapters. Later we’ll see him use we as inclusive language to embrace all those who follow […]