stresses that those who believe in him … shall never perish but shall live and remain forever” (the passages are John 6:51, 58; 8:51; 10:28; 11:26), and none of them uses μένω.47 I believe the commentator was seriously hampered by the NIV translation strategy. We could pursue this kind of study for the other repeated words, but space does not permit that—though we shall return to τηρέω and τελειόω / τέλειος in later discussions. Anyone who reads 1 John carefully will