Epistle - 1 John Outline

1 John 1:1-4 – Personal witness testimony
1:5-7 – Fellowship with Jesus
1:8-10 – Sin damages the relationship
2:1-2 – So you may not sin
2:3-8 – Obedience shows fellowship
2:9-11 – Light vs. Dark
2:12-14 – Reason for letter
2:15-17 – Do not love the world
2:18-27 – Warning against the anti-Christ
2:28-3:2 – Children of God
3:3-10 – Practicing righteousness or practicing sin
3:11-18 – Love one another
3:19-21 – Heart is our conscience
3:22-24 – His commandment
4:1-6 – Test the spirits who come to you
4:7-21 – Love abides in us
5:1-3 – We have the love of God
5:4-5 – Overcoming the world
5:6-12 – Witness of the Holy Spirit
5:13-21 – We can know

So that we may KNOW…a.k.a. “Proof of Life” – These are the evidences that you are, or are not, a child of God…

Words used/repeated in 1 John:
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Fellowship – 1:3, 6, 7,
Joy – 1:4
Light – 1:5, 7,  2:9, 2:10,
Darkness – 1:5. 1:6, 2:8, 9, 11,
If we say – 1:6,
Know – 2:3, 5, 13, 14, 18, 20, 21, 29,
3:2, 5, 6; 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 24;
4:2, 6, 7, 8, 13, 16, 5:2, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20
5:15, 18, 19, 20,
Come to know – 2:3, 4,
Does not know – 2:11, 21,  3:1; 4:8, 13, 16
Abide – 2:6, 10, 24, 27, 28;
3:6, 9, 14, 15, 17, 24;
4:12, 13, 15, 16,
Practice sin – 3:4, 8, 9,
Practice righteousness – 1:6 (truth), 2:29; 3:7, 10,
Do not practice – 1:6,
Love (loves) – 2:10, 15,
3:1, 11, 14, 16, 17, 18,
4:7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21;
5:1, 2, 3,
Hates (hate) – 2:11,  3:13, 15, 4:20,
By this.-.2:3, 5, 18 (from this),
3:16, 19, 24,
4:2, 6, 9, 13, 17,
5:2,
Have (has) the Father (Son) – 2:23; 5:12,
Keep … commandments – 2:3, 4, 3:22, 24, 5:2, 3,
Born – 5:4,
Bear witness - 5:7-11;
Beloved – 2:7; 3:2, 21; 4:1, 7, 11;

The following table shows the positive and negative truths that reveal whether you believe and accept Christ as Lord in your life or not. This should not be used as a club against others. Use it as a barometer of your own life - are walking with Christ or not?  This is how you may KNOW you are a Christian.

YES

1:7 walk in the light
1: 9 confess our sins
2:3 keep His commandments
2:5 obey His word
2:11 love fellow Christians
2:20 have the H.S.
3:3 hope means purifying self
3:7 practice righteousness
3:14 love fellow Christians
3:19-21 our conscience is convinced by the H.S.
3:24 keeps commandments, believe in Jesus Christ, have H.S.
4:2 confess Jesus is Christ
4:6 listen to teachings of apostles
4:13 have the H.S.
4:15 confess Jesus is Son of God
5:2 love God and obey commandments
5:5 have conquered the world

NO
1:6 say fellowship but walk in darkness
1:8 say do not sin
1:10 say have not sinned
2:4 say know God but do not keep commandments
2:9 hates fellow Christians
2:19 they left the church (antichrists)
2:22,23 denies Jesus is the Christ
3:8-10 practices sin
4:3 does not confess Jesus
4:6 do not listen to apostles teachings
4:20 hates fellow Christians.