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This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to… 1 John 1:5

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1 John 1:5 sin God light
If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
1 John 1:6 sin honesty truth

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 1:7 purification sacrifice community
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9 sin purification evil
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 John 2:2 sin Savior forgiveness
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:15 sin love Father
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
1 John 2:16 desires addiction pride
And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
1 John 2:17 eternal life obedience desires
No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.
1 John 2:23 Jesus Father acknowledging
Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.
1 John 2:24 listening evangelism Jesus
But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
1 John 2:27 truth learning receiving
And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.
1 John 2:28 trust second coming
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 3:1 love Father children
Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
1 John 3:2-3 purification family heaven
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
1 John 3:4 sin law righteousness
Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3:8 sin devil
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John 3:11 law love neighbor
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 John 3:16 love Jesus neighbor
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
1 John 3:17 money neighbor compassion
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:18 honesty truth speaking
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
1 John 3:21-22 trust law obedience
Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
1 John 3:24 law God Spirit