Passage Research
1 John 3 — Sermon Preparation
The lavish love of God that makes believers his children is celebrated, and love for one another is identified as proof of having passed from death to life. Below is a research summary for 1 John 3, 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 3 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| μένω | ménō | G3306 | 7 | abide, continue, dwell, endure |
| ἀδελφός | adelphós | G80 | 8 | brother |
| γινώσκω | ginṓskō | G1097 | 7 | allow, be aware, feel, know |
| ἀγαπάω | agapáō | G25 | 6 | love |
| ἁμαρτία | hamartía | G266 | 6 | offence, sin |
| διάβολος | diábolos | G1228 | 4 | false accuser, devil, slanderer |
| ἁμαρτάνω | hamartánō | G264 | 4 | for your faults, offend, sin, trespass |
How preachers through history handled this text
35 public-domain excerpts on 1 John 3, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“The sons of God know that their Lord is of purer eyes than to allow any thing unholy and impure to dwell with him. It is the hope of hypocrites, not of the sons of God, that makes allowance for gratifying impure desires and lusts. May we be followers of him as his dear children, thus show our sense of his unspeakable mercy, and express that obedient, grateful, humble mind which becomes us. Sin is the rejecting the Divine law. In him, that is, in Christ, was no sin. All the sinless weaknesses that were consequences of the fall, he took; …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on 1 John 3:3–10 (Public Domain)
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