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1, 2, 3 John—Comfort and Counsel for a Church in Crisis

The referent of αὐτοῦ (autou, “[with] him”) in 1:6. Since the last third person pronoun in 1:5, αὐτῷ (autō, “[in] him”), clearly referred to God, it seems almost certain that this pronoun in 1:6 should refer to God as well. The significance of the present tense of περιπατῶμεν (peripatōmen, “keep on walking”) in 1:6. The context of this statement in 1:6 indicates clearly that the progressive (sometimes called continuative, or durative) use of the present tense, one of its most common uses,
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