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1 John 1 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for 1 John 1, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.

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1 John 1 in the Greek

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

Greek Transliteration Strong's Count KJV renderings
κοινωνία koinōnía G2842 4 communicate, communion, distribution, fellowship
ἁμαρτία hamartía G266 4 offence, sin
φῶς phōs G5457 3 fire, light
ζωή zōḗ G2222 3 life
καθαρίζω katharízō G2511 2 clean, purge, purify
ἀπαγγέλλω apangéllō G518 2 bring word, declare, report, shew
φανερόω phaneróō G5319 2 appear, manifestly declare, manifest, shew

How preachers through history handled this text

16 public-domain excerpts on 1 John 1, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Spurgeon 6 Calvin 3 Matthew Henry 3 Augustine 1 Abraham Kuyper 1 Alexander MacLaren 1 John Wesley 1

“A message from the Lord Jesus, the Word of life, the eternal Word, we should all gladly receive. The great God should be represented to this dark world, as pure and perfect light. As this is the nature of God, his doctrines and precepts must be such. And as his perfect happiness cannot be separated from his perfect holiness, so our happiness will be in proportion to our being made holy. To walk in darkness, is to live and act against religion. God holds no heavenly fellowship or intercourse with unholy souls. …”

— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on 1 John 1:5–25 (Public Domain)

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