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John was a Firsthand Witness of Jesus Christ  1:1      God has Truly Manifested Life in His Son   1:2        

      Opening Testimony on Eternal Life   1:1-3a     John is Truly God's Messenger  1:3a

   Statements of Purpose   1:3b-4   To Promote Fellowship with Father and Son  1:3b   To Increase Our Joy  1:4

Fellowship with the God of Light   1:5-2:27

  Walking in God's Light with a Consciousness of Sin & Cleansing 1:5-10

  Obeying God's Commandments & Overcoming Evil  2:1-17   Avoiding Sin & Claiming Propitiation  2:1-2   

   Obedience an Indicator of Knowing God  2:3-6   Obedience Illustrated in Loving Others  2:7-11   

   Victory for Every Stage of the Christian Life  2:12-14 Victory Over the Soon-Passing World  2:15-17

Avoiding Anti-Christ Errors  2:18-27   The Recent Schism Explained as the Work of Anti-Christs  2:18-21

    The Pseudo-Spiritual Denial of Christ  2:22-24   The True Spiritual Insight of Believers 2:25-27

Fellowship with the God of Righteousness  2:28-4:6

    Living as Children of God  2:28-3:10   Readiness for the Lord's Coming  2:28-3:3

   Forsaking Sin & the Devil's Work  3:4-10    Loving God's Family in a Hateful World  3:11-24

   Lessons of Love and Hate from the Example of Cain  3:11-15      Sacrificial Love for the Brethren  3:16-18

   Love & Obedience a Confirming Evidence of Fellowship with God  3:19-24

   Rejecting Worldly Religious Error  4:1-6   The Call to Discernment of Spiritualistic Teachings  4:1-3

   The Believer’s Reception of Apostolic Teaching  4:4-6

Fellowship with the God of Love 4:7-5:12  

   Embracing Love Essential to God's Character & Christian Faith  4:7-5:5

   God's Inherent Love Made Manifest & Emulated by Believers  4:7-12

   Confidence Before God Gained by Perfecting of Love for God in Christ  4:13-18

   God's Initiative of Love & the Christian's Loving Response  4:19-21

   Victorious Faith Demonstrated in Love for God's Children & God's Son  5:1-5

 Embracing God's Love Encouraged by God's Own Witness to Christ  5:6-12

   God's Historical & Spiritual Witness  5:6-8   God's External & Internal Witness  5:9-10

   God’s Evangelical & Essential Witness  5:11-12

Certainty of Eternal Life  5:13

Counsel for the Believer's Prayer Life  5:14-17   Confidence Before God  5:14-15

   Intercession for Those in Error  5:16-17

Certainty in the Cosmic Struggle of Truth & Error  5:18-20

Call to Flee Idols (False Faiths)  5:21                                from Spencer’s Expository Pulpit Series