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Verses 5b-6: The Second Test This is how we know we are in him: 6 Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did. The apostle John loves using repetition to build and clarify his points. So in this way, what we’re calling his second test is really a continuation of the first …
VERSE 4: A Liar Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. This verse begins unfolding the second proposition of John’s first epistle in verse three. John assumes the most fundamental realities of the nature of truth: Truth liberates the …
VERSE 3: The First Test This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commands. The proof that someone knows the Word of Life, who was from the beginning, whom John heard, saw, and touched, and who he is now proclaiming in this apostolic epistle is that they keep the commands …
