1 John 4:21

The first command is that we should love God. But to love God is to love our Christian *brothers and sisters. We cannot separate the two loves. They are one. If we love God, we will obey him. And his command is that we love each other.

spirit ~ spirits are alive, but we cannot see them. There are good spirits usually called angels. Bad spirits (also called evil spirits, or demons) live in the air round us. Satan is their leader.
Satan ~ God’s chief enemy; the Devil.
prophets ~ those who say that they are speaking on behalf of God. There are false prophets as well as true ones.
spirit ~ spirits are alive, but we cannot see them. There are good spirits usually called angels. Bad spirits (also called evil spirits, or demons) live in the air round us. Satan is their leader.
Satan ~ God’s chief enemy; the Devil.
Christ ~ Jesus is the Christ. The word ‘Christ’ means that God appointed Jesus to save us from our sins. And the word ‘Christ’ reminds us that, even in this world, Jesus was full of God’s Holy Spirit. Jesus is the Son of God. But some people taught that Jesus was only an ordinary man. They said that he was not always the Christ. In this letter (1 John), John explains why these people were wrong. John also writes in 1 John about ‘false Christs’. These false Christs are ordinary men. The devil, not God, appointed them. False Christs also speak by spirits. But they do not speak by God’s Holy Spirit. The spirits that control false Christs come from the devil.
save ~ rescue from the influence and result of sin.
sin ~ to sin is to do wrong, bad or evil things; not to obey God. Sins are the wrong things that we do.
spirit ~ spirits are alive, but we cannot see them. There are good spirits usually called angels. Bad spirits (also called evil spirits, or demons) live in the air round us. Satan is their leader.
Satan ~ God’s chief enemy; the Devil.
children ~ John was an old man when he wrote this letter. He knew well the Christians who would receive his letter. He thought about them as his own family. So, he called them ‘children’.
world ~ all that opposes God, the church, and Christians.
Lord ~ name for God in the Bible; name that we use for Jesus when we obey him; a title for Jesus, to show that he is over all.
gospel ~ the good news about Jesus; or, one of the first 4 books in the New Testament.

New Testament ~ the last part of the Bible, which the writers wrote after the life of Jesus.
sacrifice ~ a gift to God to ask him to forgive sins; or to thank him for something. Jesus gave himself to die as a sacrifice for our sins.
sin ~ to sin is to do wrong, bad or evil things; not to obey God. Sins are the wrong things that we do.
sin ~ to sin is to do wrong, bad or evil things; not to obey God. Sins are the wrong things that we do.
Father ~ God the Father.
brother ~ John uses the word ‘brother’ to describe other Christians. Other Christians are like our relatives, because all Christians are children of God.
eternal ~ without end.
Greek ~ the language in which the authors wrote the New Testament.

New Testament ~ the last part of the Bible, which the writers wrote after the life of Jesus.
faith ~ to trust someone or something; belief and trust in God and in Jesus his Son; belief that the Bible is true.
save ~ rescue from the influence and result of sin.
sin ~ to sin is to do wrong, bad or evil things; not to obey God. Sins are the wrong things that we do.