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The letters of John speak words of encouragement and reproach to the grave concerns of the early church, yet reveal a God who not only loves his people, but wants them to experience life abundantly. Gary M. Burge’s commentary on the letters of John focuses on understanding the significance of John’s letters when he wrote them, and conveys the power they still have today.

rather than a cosmological dualism.8 To John, the material world is good and will find renewal someday. Yet there are those within it who follow evil impulses and reject God; they deserve criticism. There is a further difficulty when John says that we should not love this world. This is different from the command to love in 2:10, where the object of love is a fellow believer. Nevertheless, there is a tension with John 3:16, where we learn that God loves the world. Even though the world is a place
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