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1 John 3 — Sermon Preparation

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.

Spurgeon 14 Calvin 7 Matthew Henry 6 Alexander MacLaren 4 John Wesley 3 Augustine 1

“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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