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The third of IVP’s critically acclaimed series of dictionaries of the New Testament provides focused study on the often-neglected portions of the New Testament: Acts, Hebrews, the General Epistles and Revelation. Furthermore, its scope goes beyond the life of the New Testament church to include the work of the apostolic fathers and early Christianity up through the middle of the second century. ...

. John declares that everyone who does what is right has been born of God (1 Jn 2:29). The metaphor indicates that Christians have received new life from God by a creative act comparable with physical birth. Righteous conduct is not a condition for obtaining rebirth but rather is both a consequence and an evidence that a person has truly been born of God. This kind of righteousness was displayed by Jesus and is therefore truly possible only for those who have
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