Jensens survey of the old testament adam 600
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3:1, 4, 11, 19
4:1, 7, 13, 17
5:1, 4, 6, 9, 13, 14, 18.
3. Keep pencil or pen in hand for marking
your Bible and recording observations on
paper as you read.
4. Have a sheet of paper available for
recording observations.
5. Now read the ve chapters in one
sitting. If possible, read the book aloud. As
you read, do not tarry over details. Seek
rather to catch the large emphases of the
epistle.
6. You may want to underline words and
phrases that appear prominent during this
first reading.
7. After you have completed this reading,
ask yourself these two questions: What is the
tone or atmosphere of this epistle? What
main point is John trying to get across? If
you cannot arrive at an answer for either of
these, try reading the epistle in a modern
paraphrase such as J. B. Phillips’s The New
Testament in Modern English or The Living
Bible.
B. FURTHER READINGS
1. Now read the epistle a little more
slowly, with paragraph divisions in mind.
Choose a word or phrase from each
paragraph to represent its contents
(paragraph titles).
2. On Chart 115, record the paragraph
titles, similar to the ones shown. This simple
exercise will give you initial momentum as
you begin your study of the text.
CHART 115: PARAGRAPH TITLES FOR 1 JOHN
3. After you have recorded the paragraph
titles, read the entire group in succession.
You may not see a pattern or progression
here, because the group of paragraph titles
is not intended to show an outline as such;
but this is a helpful exercise to review some
of the highlights of John’s letter.
4. Do you see any groups of paragraphs
with similar content?
5. Scan the epistle for every reference to
God. Record your observations on paper.
Meditate on how much is known of God
from these statements.
6. Read the following verses, which refer
to the Father: 1:2, 3; 2:1, 13, 15, 16, 22, 23,
24; 3:1; 4:14; 5:7.
7. Go through the epistle and note the
various contrasts that John uses to
emphasize his points. (As was mentioned
earlier in this chapter, John does not paint
with the color gray — the predominant
colors are the contrasting black and white.)
Compare your observations with this list:
light and darkness, truth and error, love and
hate, love of the Father and love of the
world, children of God and children of the
devil, life and death, Christ and antichrist,
believers and unbelievers. Why is the Bible
written in such bold contrasts?
8. The word know and its cognates appear
more than thirty times in the epistle. Make a
study of the appearances of the phrase “we
know,” and record what is known in each
instance: 2:3, 5, 29 (“you know”); 3:14, 16,
