Beloved (αγαπητο). First instance of this favourite form of address in these Epistles (3:2,21; 4:1,7; 3 John 1,2,5,11)…

Brethren, I write no new commandment to you. That is, what I am now instructing is not new. It is the same doctrine which you have always …

The fourth inference from the doctrine that God is Light analyzes more accurately the general expression of 1 John 1:7, walking in …

Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you…

The affectionate term “dear friends” (lit., “beloved”; GK 28) reminds us that the author is looking in two directions at once: (1) He is setting fo…

Brethren, I write no new commandment to you
Some understand this of faith, which this apostle calls a commandment, (…

What knowledge of Christ can that be which does not see that He is most worthy of our entire obedience? A disobedient life shows there is neither r…