The Epistles of John

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The First Epistle of John
    1 - An Outline of First John
    2 - Author's Translation of First John
    3 - Personal Witness - I John 1:1
    4 - Life Revealed to Us - I John 1:2
    5 - Witnessing Results in Fellowship - I John 1:3
    6 - The Fulfillment of Joy - I John 1:4
    7 - There is No Sin in God - I John 1:5
    8 - Fellowship with God Necessitates a Nonsinful Lifestyle - I John 1:6
    9 - Cleansing by Christ's Blood - I John 1:7
   10 - The Self-Deception of Sinlessness - I John 1:8
   11 - Faithfulness and Justice in Cleansing Believers of Their Sins - I John 1:9
   12 - Those Who Say They Have Never Sinned Do Not Have Christ Within Them - I John 1:10
   13 - Believers Have An Advocate with the Father Should They Fall into Sin - I John 2:1
   14 - What Gives Jesus Christ the Right to be the Believers' Advocate? - I John 2:2
   15 - How Joyfully We Keep Christ's Commandments Reflect Upon Our Relationship... - I John 2:3
   16 - Professing Christ Is a Delusion If One Does Not Practice Christ - I John 2:4
   17 - The Fulfillment of God's Love Is in the Knowledge That We Are in Christ - I John 2:5
   18 - Our Duty to Walk as Jesus Walked - I John 2:6
   19 - God's Commandment Does Not Change - I John 2:7
   20 - Man is Inexcusable for Being in Darkness Because Christ Illuminates Everything - I John 2:8
   21 - One Cannot Claim to Be in the Light and Hate His Brother - I John 2:9
   22 - A Believer's Transparency Does Not Provide Occasion For Stumbling - I John 2:10
   23 - Lack of Direction in the Walk of an Immature Believer - I John 2:11
   24 - The Knowledge and Victory of Believers - I John 2:12
   25 - The Mature Believer in God's Kingdom - I John 2:13
   26 - Our Strength is in the Lord - I John 2:14
   27 - God's Love Diminishes the Believer's Delight in the Things of the World - I John 2:15
   28 - How Can We Tell Whether We Are of God or Of the World? - I John 2:16
   29 - The Impermanence of the World and the Permanence of the Obedient Believer - I John 2:17
   30 - In the Last Hour There Will be Many Antichrists - I John 2:18
   31 - Antichrists Never Were Believers - I John 2:19
   32 - Can a Believer Know All Things While in the Process of Learning? - I John 2:20
   33 - A Believer Knows What is Genuine - I John 2:21
   34 - The Antichrist Consistently Denies That the Historical Jesus is the Christ - I John 2:22
   35 - A Denier of Christ is a Denier of God - I John 2:23
   36 - The Believer Abides in God the Father and God the Son - I John 2:24
   37 - Christ's Promise is Eternal Life - I John 2:25
   38 - Constant Efforts to Deceive Believers - I John 2:26
   39 - A Believer Has the Ability to Know the Genuineness of What He Learns - I John 2:27
   40 - Abide in Christ in Anticipation of His Coming Again - I John 2:28
   41 - The Believer Should Never Forget That God is Righteous - I John 2:29
   42 - God's Love is Unique, But the World Does Not Recognize It - I John 3:1
   43 - We Must First Be Changed in Order to See Jesus Christ as He Truly Is - I John 3:2
   44 - The Christian's Hope of Seeing Jesus Causes Him to Maintain Purity - I John 3:3
   45 - Sin Is Lawlessness - I John 3:4
   46 - The Sinless Christ Revealed Himself to Take Away Our SIns - I John 3:5
   47 - One Who Practices Sin Has Never Known God - I John 3:6
   48 - One Cannot Act Justly Unless He Is Made Just by Jesus Christ - I John 3:7
   49 - Satan Is Responsible For the Sin in the World - I John 3:8
   50 - Man Cannot Live in Sin When God's Life Is in Him - I John 3:9
   51 - Eternal SIgns of Who Is a Child of God and Who is Not - I John 3:10
   52 - Loving One Another Is a Message That Never Changes - I John 3:11
   53 - Jealousy and Unrighteousness Kill - I John 3:12
   54 - Do Not Be Surprised When Unbelievers Hate You - I John 3:13
   55 - He Who Does Not Love His Brother Is Still Dead in Sin - I John 3:14
   56 - Refusing to Help One's Brother Is Equated to Killing Him - I John 3:15
   57 - Christ's Love Is a Redemptive Love - I John 3:16
   58 - Not Sharing What a Believer Has Is Inexcusable - I John 3:17
   59 - A Believer's Love SHould Be Expressed in Words and Works Coming From... - I John 3:18
   60 - The Fruitful Believer Knows He is of the Truth - I John 3:19
   61 - Do Not Be Self-Condemning; Leave It to the Judgment of God - I John 3:20
   62 - Believers Should Have Bold Entrance into God's Presence - I John 3:21
   63 - Living Close to God Enables Us to Do What Pleases Him - I John 3:22
   64 - God's Commandment: Exercise Faith In His Son and Constantly Love... - I John 3:23
   65 - Keeping God's Commandments Through The Indwelling Christ by the Holy Spirit - I John 3:24
   66 - The Believer's Duty to Discern the Spirits Whether They Are True or False - I John 4:1
   67 - A True Believer Confesses That the Eternal Son of God Became Flesh - I John 4:2
   68 - All WHo Deny That Jesus Christ Came in the Flesh are of the Antichrist - I John 4:3
   69 - The Believer's Victory over False Prophets and Antichrists - I John 4:4
   70 - Believers Should Not Be Surprised if the World Does Not Listen to Them - I John 4:5
   71 - Why the World Does Not Listen to Believers - I John 4:6
   72 - Love Is a Natural Demonstration of Having Been Born of God - I John 4:7
   73 - One Not Characterized by God's Love Never Experientially Knew God - I John 4:8
   74 - God Sent His Son Into the World so That Humans Might Have God's Life in Them - I John 4:9
   75 - The Believer's Redemption is Initiated by God, Not by Man - I John 4:10
   76 - The Certainty of God's Love for Us Obligates Us to Love All People - I John 4:11
   77 - God In His Totality is Invisible, Yet His Love Finds Its Realization in Us - I John 4:12
   78 - God's Spirit is our Witness that We Are Born Again - I John 4:13
   79 - Believers Acknowledge That the Father Sent His Son to Be the Savior of the World - I John 4:14
   80 - God's Grace Is for Anyone Who Will Confess Jesus - I John 4:15
   81 - He Who Has God's Love in Him Knows and Believes That God is Love - I John 4:16
   82 - Love Prepares Us for the Judgment of Our Works - I John 4:17
   83 - Love Casts Out Fear of Punishmnet and Instills Respect for God's Almighty... - I John 4:18
   84 - When Speaking of Our Love for God, Let Us Include Other Believers - I John 4:19
   85 - Love for God Is Proven by Our Love for Our Fellow Human Beings - I John 4:20
   86 - God Has Commanded Us to Love Him at All Times and to Love Our Fellow... - I John 4:21
   87 - A Believer Born of God Loves Others Also Born of God - I John 5:1
   88 - One Born of God Loves the Children of God and Keeps His Commandments - I John 5:2
   89 - God's Love Enables a Believer to Joyfully Keep God's Commandments - I John 5:3
   90 - A Believer Overcomes the World Through Faith - I John 5:4
   91 - To Believe Is to Be A Sure Victor - I John 5:5
   92 - How Jesus Christ Came by Water and Blood - I John 5:6
   93 - The Trinity in Heaven - I John 5:7
   94 - The Holy Spirit Convicts, Christ Gives the Living Water, and Cleanses Through... - I John 5:8
   95 - Heaven's Witness is Greater than Men's - I John 5:9
   96 - The Inner Witness That God's Testimony Is True - I John 5:10
   97 - You Will Know It When You Have God's Life in You - I John 5:11
   98 - Having Christ Is Having God's Life Within - I John 5:12
   99 - The Certainty of a Believer's Possession of Eternal Life - I John 5:13
  100 - Boldness in Prayer Created by True Faith - I John 5:14
  101 - What Should the Object of Our Prayer Be? - I John 5:15
  102 - Am I My Brother's Keeper? - I John 5:16
  103 - Is God Unjust Because He Imposes Death on Some? - I John 5:17
  104 - Can One Born of God Have a Lifestyle of Sin - I John 5:18
  105 - Believers Are In The World but Not of the World - I John 5:19
  106 - The Son of God Is Also in the World - I John 5:20
  107 - Beware of False Gods - I John 5:21

The Second Epistle of John
  108 - An Outline of Second John
  109 - Author's Translation of Second John
  110 - The Privilege of Being Loved by All Believers - II John 1:1
  111 - True Love is Based on Christ - II John 1:2
  112 - God's Gifts to the Believer: Grace, Mercy, and Peace - II John 1:3
  113 - Great Rejoicing Over the Faithful - II John 1:4
  114 - Love Is the Summation of the Commandments - II John 1:5
  115 - We Walk in Love When We Walk in Christ - II John 1:6
  116 - Who Is A Deceiver and an Antichrist? - II John 1:7
  117 - What You Can Do in the Midst of Deceivers - II John 1:8
  118 - Transgressors of the Teaching Concerning Christ Do Not Have God Abiding... - II John 1:9
  119 - On Receiving Heretics Into Your Home - II John 1:10
  120 - Let Not Your Greeting Be Misunderstood as Agreement With Erroneous Beliefs - II John 1:11
  121 - There Is No Substitute for Face-to-Face Conversation - II John 1:12
  122 - Greetings From the Children of a Sister Church - II John 1:13

The Third Epistle of John
  123 - An Outline of Third John
  124 - Author's Translation of Third John
  125 - A Much Loved Local Church Leader - III John 1:1
  126 - A Wish for Health and Soul Prosperity - III John 1:2
  127 - The Testimony Concerning Gaius Standing For Truth - III John 1:3
  128 - Great Joy Comes From Knowing One's Children Walk In Truth - III John 1:4
  129 - Hospitality Rightly Directed - III John 1:5
  130 - Honor Visiting Missionaries - III John 1:6
  131 - Are Missionaries to Receive Money from Non-Christians - III John 1:7
  132 - By Supporting Missionaries, We Become Co-Workers With Them in Truth - III John 1:8
  133 - Those in the Church Who Seek First Place - III John 1:9
  134 - John Determined to Speak Publicly Concerning a False, Proud Leader - III John 1:10
  135 - A Benevolent Life Is Of God - III John 1:11
  136 - Apostolic Approval Of A True Missionary, Demetrius - III John 1:12
  137 - John Seeks A Personal Meeting in View of The Church's Trouble - III John 1:13, 14

INDICES
  138 - Bibliography
  139 - List of Abbreviations
  140 - Guide to Transliteration
  141 - Greek Index
  142 - Scripture Index

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