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The vision for this series is to provide for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and lay people a clear and compelling exposition of texts of the Bible in the context of the Bible’s Story, and to provide discussion and instantiations of how the Bible’s Story is lived today. The purpose of the Story of God Bible Commentary Series is to explain and illuminate Scripture as God’s Story, with...

sin Jesus Christ is our advocate with the Father and the propitiatory sacrifice for our sins and for the sins of the whole world (2:1–2; 4:10). Jesus, in whom there is no sin, came to take away our sins. If we live in him, we will not continue to live in the realm of sin since we are born of God (3:5–6, 9; 5:18). Those living according to sin belong to the devil, but the Son of God came to destroy the devil’s work (3:8–9). The forgiveness of sins is a central feature of belonging to God and being
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