Bible in a Year 12/24/2016

Summary Verses
4:1 We are not to believe every spirit, but try the spirits, do they confess Jesus Christ is Lord. 4:4 Greater is He who is in us, than He who is in the world. 4:5 They do not know us for they are of this world. 4:7 Let us love one another because love comes from God and those that love are born of God. 4:11 By the example of God, John exhorts all believers to brotherly love for one another. 5:1 John shows that faith and brotherly love are inseparable and those who believe Jesus is the Christ is born of God. 5:10 That there is no faith toward God other than to believe in Jesus the Son of God. 5:14 In this is our assurance if we ask anything according to God’s will He will hear us. 5:16 And that through this our prayers are available to help those in need and fellow believers. 1:1 This is a letter written to a woman of great renown. 1:4 She brought up her children in the fear of God. 1:6 John exhorts her to continue in Christian charity. 1:7 John warns her to beware of false teachers and false Anti-Christ. 1:1 John commends Gaius for his hospitality. 1:9 John rebukes Diotrephas for vain glory and seeking preeminence among the brethren. 1:10 John commends Gaius for doing well. 1:12 And John commends Demetrius for having a good report among men.

1st John Chapter 4
4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
4:2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
4:3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
4:4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
4:5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.
4:6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
4:8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
4:9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
4:12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
4:13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
4:14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.
4:15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
4:17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.
4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
4:19 We love Him because He first loved us.
4:20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
4:21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

1st John Chapter 5
5:1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.
5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments.
5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
5:4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world-our faith.
5:5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
5:6 This is He who came by water and blood-Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.
5:7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.
5:8 And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one.
5:9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness of God which He has testified of His Son.
5:10 He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son.
5:11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
5:12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
5:13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
5:14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
5:15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.
5:16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not leading to death. There is sin leading to death. I do not say that he should pray about that.
5:17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not leading to death.
5:18 We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.
5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.
5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

2nd John Chapter 1
1:1 THE ELDER, To the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all those who have known the truth,
1:2 because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever:
1:3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with you from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
1:4 I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.
1:5 And now I plead with you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we have had from the beginning: that we love one another.
1:6 This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.
1:7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
1:8 Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.
1:9 Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son.
1:10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him;
1:11 for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.
1:12 Having many things to write to you, I did not wish to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.
1:13 The children of your elect sister greet you. Amen.

3rd John Chapter 1
1:1 THE ELDER, To the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth:
1:2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
1:3 For I rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, just as you walk in the truth.
1:4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
1:5 Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do for the brethren and for strangers,
1:6 who have borne witness of your love before the church. If you send them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God, you will do well,
1:7 because they went forth for His name’s sake, taking nothing from the Gentiles.
1:8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we may become fellow workers for the truth.
1:9 I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us.
1:10 Therefore, if I come, I will call to mind his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words. And not content with that, he himself does not receive the brethren, and forbids those who wish to, putting them out of the church.
1:11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.
1:12 Demetrius has a good testimony from all, and from the truth itself. And we also bear witness, and you know that our testimony is true.
1:13 I had many things to write, but I do not wish to write to you with pen and ink;
1:14 but I hope to see you shortly, and we shall speak face to face. Peace to you. Our friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.