Verš 1
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we would be called, and would become, the sons of God. Because of this, the world does not know us, for it did not know him.
Jn 1:12 - Yet whoever did accept him, those who believed in his name, he gave them the power to become the sons of God.
Verš 2
Most beloved, we are now the sons of God. But what we shall be then has not yet appeared. We know that when he does appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Iz 56:5 - I will give them a place in my house, within my walls, and a name better than sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name, which will never perish.
Jn 1:12 - Yet whoever did accept him, those who believed in his name, he gave them the power to become the sons of God.
Rim 8:15 - And you have not received, again, a spirit of servitude in fear, but you have received the Spirit of the adoption of sons, in whom we cry out: “Abba, Father!”
Gal 3:26 - For you are all sons of God, through the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Gal 4:6 - Therefore, because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying out: “Abba, Father.”
Mt 5:12 - be glad and exult, for your reward in heaven is plentiful. For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Rim 8:18 - For I consider that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with that future glory which shall be revealed in us.
2Kor 4:17 - For though our tribulation is, at the present time, brief and light, it accomplishes in us the weight of a sublime eternal glory, beyond measure.
Flp 3:21 - who will transform the body of our lowliness, according to the form of the body of his glory, by means of that power by which he is even able to subject all things to himself.
Kol 3:4 - When Christ, your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Verš 4
Everyone who commits a sin, also commits iniquity. For sin is iniquity.
1Jn 5:17 - All that is iniquity is sin. But there is a sin unto death.
Verš 5
And you know that he appeared in order that he might take away our sins. For in him there is no sin.
Iz 53:12 - Therefore, I will allot to him a great number. And he will divide the spoils of the strong. For he has handed over his life to death, and he was reputed among criminals. And he has taken away the sins of many, and he has prayed for the transgressors.
1Tim 1:15 - It is a faithful saying, and worthy of acceptance by everyone, that Christ Jesus came into this world to bring salvation to sinners, among whom I am first.
Iz 53:9 - And he will be given a place with the impious for his burial, and with the rich for his death, though he has done no iniquity, nor was deceit in his mouth.
2Kor 5:21 - For God made him who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the justice of God in him.
1Pt 2:22 - He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.
Verš 7
Little sons, let no one deceive you. Whoever does justice is just, even as he also is just.
1Jn 2:29 - If you know that he is just, then know, too, that all who do what is just are born of him.
Verš 9
All those who have been born of God do not commit sin. For the offspring of God abides in them, and he is not able to sin, because he was born of God.
1Jn 5:18 - We know that everyone who is born of God does not sin. Instead, rebirth in God preserves him, and the evil one cannot touch him.
1Pt 1:23 - For you have been born again, not from corruptible seed, but from what is incorruptible, from the Word of God, living and remaining for all eternity.
Verš 11
For this is the announcement that you heard from the beginning: that you should love one another.
1Jn 3:23 - And this is his commandment: that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
Jn 13:34 - I give you a new commandment: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also must you love one another.
Jn 15:12 - This is my precept: that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
Verš 12
Do not be like Cain, who was of the evil one, and who killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked, but his brother’s works were just.
Gn 4:8 - And Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go outside.” And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and he put him to death.
Heb 11:4 - By faith, Abel offered to God a much better sacrifice than that of Cain, through which he obtained testimony that he was just, in that God offered testimony to his gifts. And through that sacrifice, he still speaks to us, though he is dead.
Verš 13
If the world hates you, brothers, do not be surprised.
Jn 15:18 - If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before you.
Verš 14
We know that we have passed from death to life. For we love as brothers. Whoever does not love, abides in death.
1Jn 2:10 - Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause of offense in him.
Verš 15
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding within him.
Mt 5:21 - You have heard that it was said to the ancients: ‘You shall not murder; whoever will have murdered shall be liable to judgment.’
Gal 5:21 - envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.
Verš 16
We know the love of God in this way: because he laid down his life for us. And so, we must lay down our lives for our brothers.
Jn 15:13 - No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.
Ef 5:2 - And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and delivered himself for us, as an oblation and a sacrifice to God, with a fragrance of sweetness.
Verš 17
Whoever possesses the goods of this world, and sees his brother to be in need, and yet closes his heart to him: in what way does the love of God abide in him?
Dt 15:7 - If one of your brothers, who dwells within the gates of your city, in the land which the Lord your God will give to you, falls into poverty, you shall not harden your heart, nor tighten your hand.
Lk 3:11 - But in response, he said to them: “Whoever has two coats, let him give to those who do not have. And whoever has food, let him act similarly.”
Jak 2:15 - So if a brother or sister is naked and daily in need of food,
Verš 22
and whatever we shall request of him, we shall receive from him. For we keep his commandments, and we do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
Jer 29:12 - And you shall call upon me, and you shall go forth. And you shall pray to me, and I will heed you.
Mt 7:8 - For everyone who asks, receives; and whoever seeks, finds; and to anyone who knocks, it will be opened.
Mt 21:22 - And all things whatsoever that you shall ask for in prayer: believing, you shall receive.”
Mk 11:24 - For this reason, I say to you, all things whatsoever that you ask for when praying: believe that you will receive them, and they will happen for you.
Lk 11:9 - And so I say to you: Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
Jn 14:13 - And whatever you shall ask the Father in my name, that I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Jn 16:24 - Until now, you have not requested anything in my name. Ask, and you shall receive, so that your joy may be full.
Jak 1:5 - But if anyone among you is in need of wisdom, let him petition God, who gives abundantly to all without reproach, and it shall be given to him.
1Jn 5:14 - And this is the confidence which we have toward God: that no matter what we shall request, in accord with his will, he hears us.
Verš 23
And this is his commandment: that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
Jn 6:29 - Jesus responded and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he sent.”
Jn 17:3 - And this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Lv 19:18 - Do not seek revenge, neither should you be mindful of the injury of your fellow citizens. You shall love your friend as yourself. I am the Lord.
Mt 22:39 - But the second is similar to it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Jn 13:34 - I give you a new commandment: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also must you love one another.
Jn 15:12 - This is my precept: that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
Ef 5:2 - And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and delivered himself for us, as an oblation and a sacrifice to God, with a fragrance of sweetness.
1Sol 4:9 - But concerning the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you. For you yourselves have learned from God that you should love one another.
1Pt 4:8 - But, before all things, have a constant mutual charity among yourselves. For love covers a multitude of sins.
1Jn 4:21 - And this is the commandment that we have from God, that he who loves God must also love his brother.
Verš 24
And those who keep his commandments abide in him, and he in them. And we know that he abides in us by this: by the Spirit, whom he has given to us.
Jn 14:23 - Jesus responded and said to him: “If anyone loves me, he shall keep my word. And my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and we will make our dwelling place with him.
Jn 15:10 - If you keep my precepts, you shall abide in my love, just as I also have kept my Father’s precepts and I abide in his love.
1Jn 4:12 - No one has ever seen God. But if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
1Jn 3,1-2 - Porov. 2 Pt 1, 4; 1 Kor 13, 12.
1Jn 3,4 - "Bezprávie" (gr. anomía = prestúpenie zákona) – teda hriech je priestupkom proti Božiemu zákonu, je "neprávosťou" (1, 9).
1Jn 3,6 - "Kto ostáva v ňom, nehreší", t. j. kto vierou a láskou zostáva v spojení s Kristom; kto hreší, nepozná vierou náležite Krista, a teda ani nie je s ním úplne spojený.
1Jn 3,8 - "Je z diabla", je pod zhubným vplyvom diablovým a necháva sa ním zvádzať (porov. Jn 8, 44).
1Jn 3,9 - Semeno posväcujúcej milosti a Božieho života v nás. "Nemôže hrešiť": niežeby nemohol vôbec hrešiť, ale zrodený z Boha stáva sa v Kristovi novým stvorením a ako taký je v osobitnej Božej ochrane, kým sa svojvoľne nepripraví o milosť.
1Jn 3,13-15 - Kresťanská láska je znakom nadprirodzeného života, a tak oslobodenia od hriechu a smrti.
1Jn 3,20 - Boh je väčší ako naše srdce vo svojom milosrdenstve (porov. Lk 1, 49–50). Ak naozaj praktizujeme lásku, Boh ju aj napriek našim hriechom objaví v našom srdci (Jn 21, 17).
