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Often appears with: religious persecution and toleration · prayer for forgiveness · logic, method, and demonstration · justice as a virtue · faith in jesus · 2 john teaching
Usually: argument (1) · the test or trial (1) · exhortation (1)
The passage continues 1 John with victory over the world through faith in Jesus as God’s Son, testimony of water and blood, prayer for sins not unto death, and then begins 2 John with the “elect lady” and teaching about Christ’s flesh.
And this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcometh the world: but he which believeth that Iesus is the son of God? This Iesus Christ is he that came by water and blood, not by water only: but by water and blood. And it is the spirit that beareth witness, because the spirit is truth. For there are three which bear record in heaven, the father, the word, and the holy ghost. An…