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Study Guide
Chapter 3 emphasizes God’s love for us as His children, noting that the world does not recognize us as God’s children because it does not know Him.
Having learned about the power of God’s love in the first nine verses of chapter 3 (covered in the previous lesson), we now explore how God’s love is proven through His children.
1 John 3:10-24 teaches us that the proof of God’s love is characterized by:
- A Pattern of Righteousness (1 John 3:10)
- A Peculiar Love for One Another (1 John 3:11-15)
- A Practical Love for One Another (1 John 3:16-18)
- A God-Pleasing Love for One Another (1 John 3:19-24)
Read the Passage
Read 1 John 3:10-24 several times from one or more of the following key translations. This, with the outline above, will help you see the boundaries, content, and flow of the study passage.
- Your own Bible
- New Living Translation (NLT)
- Berean Standard Bible (BSB; audio with transcript)
Study the Passage
Study Questions:
- According to verse 10, how can we tell the difference between the children of God and the children of the devil?
- Why is it important to know the difference?
- How does learning about the love among the children of God prove anything about God’s love?
- What is the message referred to in verse 11? (Check out John 13:34-35 to see why.)
- How does the love among followers of Jesus, described in verses 12-24, teach us about God’s love?
Study Resources:
- Your own Study Bible’s notes and articles
- BibleRef.com Commentary *
- Bible Hub Study Bible *
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Memory Verse
1 John 3:11 (NLT)
“This is the message you have heard from the beginning:
We should love one another.”
