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“Throughout the various periods of the Christian era,” writes D. Edmond Hiebert in the preface to this commentary, “devout believers have always cherished the Johannine Epistles as a priceless portion of the New Testament. The grand simplicity of their contents have unfailingly nurtured the faith and stimulated the life of the humblest believer, while the profound depths of their teachings have...

was all-important and that conduct did not really matter, John now declares the reality that sin and its practice are irreconcilable with the nature of Christianity. John has mentioned sin before (1:7, 8, 9; 2:1, 12), but now in verses 4–9 he mentions the concept of sin no fewer than ten times. John points out the true nature of sin (vv. 4–5) and that its practice establishes the distinctness between the two classes of humanity (vv. 6–8a). . John shows
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