1, 2, 3 John – Overall Chiasms
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Index| 1.1-4 | 1 | Word of life | 5.21-18 | eternal life | |
| 3 | Father | true God | |||
| Son Jesus Christ | Son Jesus Christ | ||||
| 4 | joy fulfilled | 19-18 | We of God; evil touches [us] not | ||
| 1.5-10 | Confess sins | 5.17-13 | Ask God for life for sinning brother | ||
| God faithful | 15-14 | We have boldness to ask God; he hears us | |||
| 2.1-6 | 1-2 | Summary of Gospel: | 5.12-1 | ||
| I wrote: Jesus as advocate and expiation for sins of world |
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| 3-6 | Commandments | 3-1 | Commandments | ||
| 2.7-11 | The old/new commandment | 4.21-7 | This commandment | ||
| love brother | love one another | ||||
| 2.12-17 | Little children | 4.6-4 |
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| 14 | Overcome evil one | 4b | Overcome them | ||
| 17 | Who do will of God - abide | 4a | You are of God | ||
| 18 | Last hour | 4.3-1 | 3 | That of antichrist has come | |
| 2.19-23 | Test for deceivers | 2-1 | Prove the spirits | ||
| 2.24-29 | 24 | Abide | 3.24-17 | 24b | Abide |
| 26 | Lead astray | 24b-23 | Keep commandments | ||
| 29 | Do righteousness | 18 | Love in deed and truth | ||
| 3.1-8 | 1a | Behold manner of love | 3.16-10 | 16 | Hereby we know love |
| 1b | Children of God | We passed from death to life | |||
| 1c | World knows us not | 13 | Marvel not if world hates you | ||
| 3-7 | Purify selves; let no man lead astray; do righteousness | 12c | Because his works were evil and his brother's righteous | ||
| 8a | of the Devil is that he does sin | 12b | Cain was of the Evil One and slew his brother | ||
| 8b | Devil sins from beginning | 11 | Message heard from beginning | ||
| 8cd | Son of God manifested | 10b | the children of God are manifested | ||
| 8d | to this end: to destroy works of Devil | 10a | In this | ||
| 3.9 | Whoever is begotten of God | because he is begotten of God. | |||
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does no sin |
and he cannot sin | ||||
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because his seed abides in him |
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| 1 | Elect lady - children | 13 | Elect sister - children |
| 2 | Truth abides in us for ever | 12c | Your joy is fulfilled |
| 3 | Grace ... shall be with us | 12b | I hope to come to you, speak face to face |
| 4 | Walk in truth | 11 | Partaking in evil worksd |
| 5 | Commandment | 10 | This teaching |
| 6 | Commandment | the teaching | |
| 7a | Deceivers gone forth into world | 9 | Goes onward and abides not |
| 7b | Confess not Jesus Christ come in flesh | 8 | Lose not what have wrought |
| 7c | This is Deceiver | 7c | and the Antichrist |
| 1-2 | Greeting | 13 | Salute |
| 2-4 | Walk in truth | 12 | Our witness true |
| 5 | You do faithful work to brothers | 12b | Diotrephes [to be received] has |
| 6 | Bear witness to | 12a | witness of all; we also bear witness |
| 6b-8 | your love as well, worthily of God | 11 | Beloved, imitate ... good |
| 9a | I wrote to church | 10e | casts them out of church |
| 9b | Seeks pre-eminence | 10d | Forbids those who would receive brothers |
| 9c | Receives us not | 10c | Receives not brothers |
| 10a | I will bring to remembrance his works | 10b | He prates against us with wicked words. |