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Exalting Jesus in 1,2,3 John is unavailable, but you can change that!

Edited by David Platt, Daniel L. Akin, and Tony Merida, this new commentary series, projected to be 48 volumes, takes a Christ-centered approach to expositing each book of the Bible. Rather than a verse-by-verse approach, the authors have crafted chapters that explain and apply key passages in their assigned Bible books. Readers will learn to see Christ in all aspects of Scripture, and they will...

Having provided a word of encouragement in verses 12–14, John now gives a word of exhortation and warning concerning something he identifies six times as “the world.” Here he is not using the word “world” (Gk cosmos) to speak of God’s good creation (Acts 17:24) or even the world of people for whom Christ died (1 John 2:2; John 3:16). No, instead he is referring here to a worldview perspective (cf. John 16:11) that is led by “the evil one”
1 John 2:15–17
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