Today’s passage: 1 John 3:6–10 Focus verse: The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. (1 John 3:8) Our passage for the day is one that troubles most people. It talks about sin. John writes that when Jesus lives in us, we won’t keep on sinning. If we know him, we can’t. […]
Today’s passage: 1 John 3:4–5 Focus verse: But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. (1 John 3:5) John reminds us that anyone who sins breaks the law. He’s talking about the law of Moses. Sin is something we all do. We’re all guilty of breaking God’s law. The Old Testament […]
Today’s passage: 1 John 3:1–3 Focus verse: See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! (1 John 3:1) The Bible says that Jesus is God’s one and only Son (John 3:16–18 and 1 John 4:9). However, God also calls us his children. How can we be God’s children […]
Today’s passage: 1 John 2:26–29 Focus verse: The anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. (1 John 2:27) Our verse for today contains two words that we’ve already read in 1 John 2: anointing and remain. In verse twenty, John reminds us of the fact that we received […]
Today’s passage: 1 John 2:24–25 Focus verse: And this is what he promised us—eternal life. (1 John 2:25) After warning us to be on alert for the antichrist, John encourages us to make sure we hold on to the good news of Jesus—on what we heard from the beginning. We started our journey with Jesus by believing […]
Today’s passage: 1 John 2:18–23 Focus verse: As you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. (1 John 2:18) After John tells us to not love the world, he warns us about antichrists too. Anti means against and Christ means Messiah. Therefore, an antichrist is someone who is against the Messiah, […]
Today’s passage: 1 John 2:15–17 Focus verse: Do not love the world or anything in the world. (1 John 2:15) John reminds his audience to not love the world or anything in it. Loving what the world offers is incompatible with loving God, as Jesus commands us to do. We can’t have the world’s love and the […]
Today’s passage: 1 John 2:7–11 Focus verse: Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. (1 John 2:10) John launches into a discussion about an old command and not a new one. Then he pivots just as quickly to talk about a new command. […]
Today’s passage: 1 John 2:3–6 Focus verse: Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did. (1 John 2:6) Today’s passage talks about knowing God and keeping his commands. If we claim to know God and don’t do what he says, we’re only deluding ourselves from the truth, and our claim is false. But when […]
Today’s passage: 1 John 2:1–2 Focus verse: But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. (1 John 2:1) John’s desire for us is that we do not sin. That’s one of the reasons he writes his letter. Yet if anyone does sin, he reminds us that we have an […]