OUTLINE OF CONTENTS

1

• Word of life (1-4)

• Walking in the light (5-7)

• Need for confessing sins (8-10)

2

• Jesus, a propitiatory sacrifice (1, 2)

• Observing his commandments (3-11)

  • Old and new commandment (7, 8)

• Reasons for writing (12-14)

• Do not love the world (15-17)

• Warning against the antichrist (18-29)

3

• We are God’s children (1-3)

• God’s children versus the Devil’s (4-12)

  • Jesus to destroy the Devil’s works (8)

• Love one another (13-18)

• God is greater than our hearts (19-24)

4

• Testing inspired statements (1-6)

• Knowing and loving God (7-21)

  • “God is love” (8, 16)

  • No fear in love (18)

5

• Faith in Jesus conquers the world (1-12)

  • What love of God means (3)

• Confidence in the power of prayer (13-17)

• Be on guard in a wicked world (18-21)

  • Whole world in power of the wicked one (19)