1 John Theme: False Christians

1 John 1:6 "If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth."

1 John 1:8 "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." (1 John 1:10)

1 John 2:4 "Whoever says 'I know him' but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,"

1 John 2:9; 11 "Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness" ... "But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him."

1 John 2:15 "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him."

1 John 2:19 "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if the had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might be plain that they all are not of us."

1 John 2:22-23 "Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also."

The truth is Jesus, so if we lie, then we don't have Jesus. Jesus is the light of the world, the truth, the way and the light. (John 8:12; 14:6)

1 John 3:4 "Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness."

1 John 3:6 "No one who abides in him keeps on sinning, no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him'

1 John 3:8 "Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil."

1 John 3:14; 15 "...Whoever does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him."

1 John 3:17 "But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?"

1 John 4:3 "and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already."

1 John 4:5; 6 "They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them...whoever is not from God does not listen to us."

1 John 4:8 "Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love."

1 John 4:20 "If anyone says, 'I love God,' but hates his brother, he is a liar, for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen."

1 John 5:10 "...Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony God has borne concerning his Son."

1 John 5:12 "...whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life."