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1 John 1 Bible study: That you also may have fellowship
1:3 says why the letter declares what it does, "that you also may have fellowship with us", and says with whom that fellowship is: "Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ." (1:3).
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“that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.”
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“1 John 1:10 says, "his word is not in us".”
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That our joy may be fulfilled
The letter opens, "That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life" (1:1) "(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);" (1:2) "that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ." (1:3) (tap fellowship) "And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled." (1:4) (tap joy). These notes say nothing of who the letter's we are, beyond what the letter says; they explain "the Word of life" (1:1) and 1:2 no further than their words; and they apply this chapter to no reader, teacher, church, people or person today, and its words "walk in the darkness" (1:6), "we lie" (1:6) and "a liar" (1:10) to no one. Here is what almost everyone misses: fellowship comes twice in 1:3, and behind it both times is the same Greek noun (in all eight editions TAGNT compares). It comes again in 1:6.
Where the Old Testament leads here
Cleansed from all sin
Leviticus 16:30leads to1 John 1:7
The chapter says, "on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you. You shall be clean from all your sins before the LORD" (16:30). John writes, "the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin" (1 John 1:7). John doesn't name Leviticus 16; setting the two together is an interpretation.
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The Greek word behind it
κοινωνίαkoinoniasay koy-nohn-EE-ah
Strong's: "partnership, i.e. (literally) participation, or (social) intercourse". "that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ." (1:3), and "If we say that we have fellowship with him" (1:6): behind fellowship each time is this noun. 1 John has it four times, in three verses, all of them in this chapter (counted in RP2018, and in all eight editions TAGNT compares). Favor's Romans 15 studies it and counts it in the New Testament. Another letter has it in "God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord." (1 Corinthians 1:9).
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1 John 1 Bible study questions
- 1"that you also may have fellowship with us" (1:3). What helps the people you study with share what they're learning?
- 2"that our joy may be fulfilled" (1:4). When has reading the Bible with others brought you joy?
- 3"our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ" (1:3). What stands out to you in these words about fellowship?
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