Life Application Bible Commentary

Life Application Bible Commentary

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Bible Commentary

1, 2 & 3 JOHN

TYNDALE HOUSE PUBLISHERS, INC.

CAROL STREAM, ILLINOIS

Bruce B. Barton, D.Min. Philip W. Comfort, D.Litt. et Phil. Linda Chaffee Taylor David R. Veerman, M.Div. Len Woods, Th.M.

GENERAL EDITOR: Grant Osborne, Ph.D. SERIES EDITOR: Philip W. Comfort, D.Litt. et Phil.

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Life Application Bible Commentary: 1, 2 & 3 John

Copyright ? 1998 by The Livingstone Corporation. All rights reserved.

Contributing Editors: James C. Galvin, Ed.D., and Ronald A. Beers

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Interior illustrations of candle (1 John), sandals (2 John), and mugs (3 John) copyright ? 2004 by Tracy Walker. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked NIV are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version?. NIV?. Copyright ? 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked NKJV are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright ? 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked NRSV are taken from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright ? 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

(No citation is given for Scripture text that is exactly the same wording in all three versions--NIV, NKJV, and NRSV.)

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Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright ? 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

1, 2, & 3 John / Bruce B. Barton . . . [et al.]. p. cm. -- (Life application Bible commentary)

Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8423-2857-9 (sc : alk. paper) 1. Bible. N.T. Epistles of John--Commentaries. BS2805.3.A12 1998 227.9406--dc21

I. Barton, Bruce B.

II. Series. 97-33489

Printed in the United States of America

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CONTENTS

ix Foreword xi Introduction to 1, 2 & 3 John

1 Introduction to 1 John

1 Author 3 Date and Setting 4 Audience 5 Purpose 6 Message 11 Vital Statistics 11 Outline 13 1 John 1:1?2:11 39 1 John 2:12-29 61 1 John 3 83 1 John 4 105 1 John 5

123 Introduction to 2 John

123 Author 124 Date and Setting 124 Audience 125 Purpose 125 Message 127 Vital Statistics 127 Outline 129 2 John

155 Bibliography 157 Index

141 Introduction to 3 John

141 Author 141 Date and Setting 142 Audience 142 Purpose 142 Message 144 Vital Statistics 144 Outline 145 3 John

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