Theological Themes of 1 John

God is light (1:5; 2:8)	God is love (4:8, 16, 19)
Christians were spiritually dead: then, they “passed out of death into life” (3:14)
God loved his people and sent Jesus to die for them (3:16; 4:10, 14, 19; 5:11)
Christians have been born of God (2:29; 3:9; 4:7; 5:1, 4, 18)
God gave Christians life (3:14; 4:9; 5:11, 16)
God gave Christians the Spirit (2:20, 27; 3:24; 4:13) along with understanding (5:20)
Christians are of/from God/the truth (3:10, 19; 4:4, 6; 5:19)
God abides in Christians, and his Word abides in them (2:14, 24, 27; 3:9, 24; 4:12, 13, 15, 16)	Christians abide in God, and thus abide in the light (2:5, 6, 27, 28; 3:6, 24; 4:13, 16)
Christians know God (2:13, 14; 4:6, 7), they know the Father (2:13; 5:20), they know Jesus (1:3; 2:3), and they know the Spirit (4:2, 6)	Christians love God (2:5; 4:21; 5:2, 3)
Because they have been born again, have received the Spirit, abide in God as God abides in them, and know and love God, Christians bear observable fruit. They: practice truth/righteousness (1:6; 2:29; 3:7, 10) walk in the light/as he walked (1:7; 2:6) confess sins and have forgiveness (1:9; 2:12) keep/obey his commandments/Word (2:3, 5; 3:22, 24; 5:2, 3) love one another/the brothers (2:10; 3:10, 11, 14, 16, 18, 23; 4:7, 11, 21) overcome the evil one/the world (2:13, 14; 4:4; 5:4) do the will of God/cannot keep on sinning (2:17; 3:9, 22) confess the Son/believe in Jesus (2:23; 3:23; 4:2, 15; 5:1, 4, 13)