1 John

Question 1

1 John theme

Answer 1

The tests of eternal life (theme)

Question 2

1 John 1:5

Answer 2

God is light

“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.”

Question 3

1 John 1:8-10

Answer 3

Confess sin

“If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.”

Question 4

1 John 2:2

Answer 4

Propitiation for the whole world

“He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.”

Question 5

1 John 2:12-14

Answer 5

Maturity levels in the church

“I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake. 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 to you, children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.”

Question 6

1 John 2:15

Answer 6

Don’t love the world

“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.”

Question 7

1 John 2:19

Answer 7

They went out from us

“They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.”

Question 8

1 John 3:2

Answer 8

We shall see Him as He is

“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.”

Question 9

1 John 3:17-18

Answer 9

Real love gives; love in deed

“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? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.”

Question 10

1 John 4:1

Answer 10

Test the spirits

“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.”

Question 11

1 John 4:7-8;20

Answer 11

We love because God is love

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.”

Question 12

1 John 4:19

Answer 12

We love because God first loved us

“We love because he first loved us.”

Question 13

1 John 5:3

Answer 13

Real love keeps God’s commandments

“For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.”

Question 14

1 John 5:11-12

Answer 14

Life is in the son

“And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.”

Question 15

I John 5:13

Answer 15

The purpose of 1 John

“I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.”