Category: Book of 1 John
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Made for God
Scripture Focus “We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him…
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Whoever Has the Son Has Life
Scripture Focus “For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree… 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…
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When Your Heart Condemns You
Scripture Focus “By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God.” — 1…
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Love That Does Something
Scripture Focus “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.” — 1 John 3:17–18 (ESV) Devotional…
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See What Kind of Love
Scripture Focus “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 (ESV) Devotional Thought As John…
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The Joy of Abiding
Scripture Focus “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. And now, little children,…
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The Truth That Protects Us
Scripture Focus “Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour… I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and…
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Living for a Better Country
Scripture Focus “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. 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…
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Love That Proves We Belong
Scripture Focus “Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him…
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Walking in the Light
Scripture Focus “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. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if…
