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The Johannine Epistles: A Commentary on the Johannine Epistles is unavailable, but you can change that!

A classic commentary on 1, 2, and 3 John from a well-known name in the field of biblical studies. Bultmann addresses issues of authorship and source criticism into his discussion of the epistles, largely siding with Haenchen and Schnackenburg.

Warning against False Teaching 1 John 4:1–6* 4 1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2/ By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ as having come in the flesh is of God, 3/ and every spirit which annuls Jesus is not of God. And this, moreover, is the spirit of antichrist, which you heard is coming, and now is in the world. 4/ Little children, you are of
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