Jam| 1Pe| 2Pe| 1Jo| 2Jo| 3Jo| Jud

The First Epistle
of
John
I. |The fellowship of the divine life—1:1-2:11A. |The manifestation of the divine life—1:1-2B. |The divine fellowship—1:3-4C. |The condition of the divine fellowship—1:5-2:11
1. |Confessing our sins—1:5-2:2
2. |Loving God and the brothers—2:3-11
II. |The teaching of the divine anointing—2:12-27A. |Concerning the Divine Trinity according to the growth in life—vv.|12-19B. |For the abiding in the Triune God—vv.|20-27III. |The virtues of the divine birth—2:28-5:21A. |To practice the divine righteousness—2:28-3:10aB. |To practice the divine love—3:10b-5:3
1. |By the divine life (as the divine seed) and the divine Spirit—3:10b-24
2. |By the proving of the spirits—4:1-6
3. |By God (as the supreme love) and the bountiful Spirit—4:7-5:3
C. |To overcome the world, death, sin, the devil, and idols—5:4-21
1. |By the eternal life in the Son—vv.|4-13
2. |By the life-giving petition—vv.|14-17
3. |By the true God as the eternal life—vv.|18-21
Outline of 1 John
Home



|