Appendix G


Parallels between
1 John and the Gospel of John

 

1 John
Gospel of John
1:2 "We have seen and bear witness to" 3:11 "What we have seen we bear witness to"
1:4 "In order that your joy may be complete" 16:24 "In order that your joy may be complete"
1:6 "We do not do the truth" 3:21 "The one who does the truth"
1:6 "We walk in the darkness" / 2:11 "He walks in the darkness" 12:35 "The one who walks in the darkness" / "You do not walk in the darkness"
1:8 "The truth is not in you" / 2:4 "In this one the truth is not" 8:44 "Truth is not in him"
1:8 "We do not have sin" 9:41 "You do not have sin" (see 15:22, 24; 19:11)
2:3 "If we keep his commandments" / 2:4 "Not keeping his commandments" / 3:22 "Because we keep his commandments" / 3:24 "And the one who keeps his commandments" / 5:3 "In order that we keep his commandments" 14:15 "If you love me, keep my commandments" / 14:21 "The one who has my commandments and keeps them"
2:6 "The who claims to remain in him" / 2:28 "Remain in him" / 3:6 "All who remain in him" / 3:24 "The one who keeps his commandments remains in him and he in him" / 4:12 "If you love one another, God remains in you" / 4:13 "That we remain in him and he in us" / 4:15 "God remains in him and he in God" 6:56 "The one who...remains in me and I in him" / 14:10 "I in the Father and the Father in me" / 15:4 "If you do not remain in me"
2:6 "That one" [i.e., Christ] / see 3:3, 5, 7, 16; 4:17 2:21 "That one" [i.e., Christ] / see 3:20; 4:25; 9:37
2:11 "He does not know where he is going" 3:8 "You do not know...where it [Spirit] is going / 8:14 "I know...where I am going" / 13:36 "Where are you going?"
2:14 "The word of God remains in you" 5:38 "His [God’s] word you do not have remaining in you”
2:16 "Is from the world" 8:23 "You are from this world" / 15:19 "If you are from the world"

2:17 "The one who does the will of God remains forever."

8:35 "The son remains forever" / 12:34 "The Christ remains forever"
2:21 "Is not from the truth" / 3:19 "We are from the truth" 18:37 "All who are from the truth"
2:24 "If what you heard from the beginning remains in you" 15:7 "And my words remain in you"
2:27 "You do not have need, in order that..." 2:25 "You do not have need, in order that..." / see 16:30
2:29 "He has been born from him" / 3:9a "Everyone born from God" / 3:9b "Because he has been born from God" / 4:7 "The one who loves has been born from God" / 5:1 "Everyone who believes...has been born from God" / 5:18a "The one born from God" / 5:18b "The one who was born from God" 3:8 "The one born from the Spirit"
3:1 "In order that we might be called the children of God" / 3:2 "We are the children of God" / 3:10 "In this the children of God are made manifest" / 5:2 "That we love the children of God" 1:12 "He gave them the right to become the children of God" / 11:52 "The scattered children of God"
3:3 "He purifies himself" 11:55 "In order that they purify themselves"
3:4 "All who do sin" / 3:8 "The one who does sin" / 3:9 "Does not do sin" 8:34 "All who do sin"
3:5 "That one has appeared in order to remove sin" 1:29 "The one who removes the sin of the world"
3:8 "He is from the devil" 8:44 "You are from [your] father, the devil"
3:10 "He is not from God" / 4:1 "If they are from God" / 4:2 "Is from God" / 4:3 "Is not from God" / 4:4 "You are from God" / 4:6a "We are from God" 4:6b "The one who is not from God" / 5:19 "We are from God" 8:47 "The one who is from God"
3:9 "He is not able to sin" / 4:20 "He is not able to love" 8:43 "You are not able to hear" / 5:44 "How are you able to believe"
3:14 "We have crossed over from death to life" 5:24 "He has crossed over from death to life"
3:16 "That one laid down his life for us" 10:11 "He lays down his life for the sheep" / 10:17 "I lay down my life, in order that I might take it up again" / 10:18 "I have power to lay it [life] it down" / 13:37 "I will lay down my life for you"
3:20 "For God is greater than [our] hearts / 4:4 "The one in you is greater" / 5:9 "The witness of God is greater" 10:29 "The Father...is greater" / "My father is greater than me" / 8:53 "You are not greater than our father Abraham" / 5:36 "I have a witness greater than John"

3:22 "We do pleasing things before him [God]"

8:29 "Because I always do pleasing things for him [God]"
3:23 "Just as he gave to us a commandment" 14:31 "Just as the Father gave to me a commandment" / 12:49 "The...Father gave to me a commandment what to say" / 13:34 "I give to you a new commandment" / 11:57 "But the chief priest had given commandments"

4:6 “We are from God; the one who knows God hears us. The one who is not from God does not hear us”

8:47 “The one who is from God hears the words of God”
4:6 "The Spirit of truth" 14:16-17 "Another counselor...the Spirit of truth" / 16:13 "That one, the Spirit of truth"
4:7 "Love is from God" 7:17 "Concerning the teaching, whether itis from God"
4:9 "He sent his son, the only-begotten" 1:14 "As the only-begotten from the Father" / 1:18 "Only-begotten God, the one from the Father's side"/ 3:16 "He gave his only-begotten son" / 3:18 "The only-begotten son of God"
4:12 "No one has beheld God as any time" / 4:20 "God whom he has not seen" 1:18 "No one has seen God at any time" / 6:46 "Because no one has seen the Father"

4:16 "We have known and have believed."

6:69 "We have believed and have known."

5:4 "This is the victory, that which is victorious over the world, your faith" / 5:5 "This is the one who is victorious over the world"

16:33 "I have been victorious over the world."
5:6 "This is the one who comes" 1:33 "This is the one who baptizes"
5:6 "The one who comes through water and blood" / 5:8 "The water and the blood" 19:34 "Immediately there came out water and blood"
5:9 "If we receive the witness of men" 3:33 "The one who receives my witness" / 5:34 "But I do not receive the witness from men"

5:9 "The witness of God is greater, because this is the witness of God, that he has witnessed concerning his son"

5:32 "This is the one who witnesses concerning me, and I know that [his] witness is true, which he witnesses concerning me"
5:13 "In order that you might know that you have eternal life" 3:15 "In order that all who believe in him might have eternal life" / 5:39 "You think that in them you have eternal life"
5:20 "In order that you might know the truth" 17:3 "In order that they might know you, the one true God"

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