1 John

The 1st letter that John wrote

(The book in the Holy Bible called

About this letter

John wrote this letter about 2,000 years ago. That was about 60 years after Jesus went back to heaven. This letter is now in the Holy Bible.

John was one of Jesus’s 12 special workers. He went everywhere with Jesus, and he knew Jesus well.

At the time when John wrote this letter, he was an old man. He was a church leader, and lots of people respected him. He lived in a place called Ephesus, in the country that we now call Turkey. There were churches in lots of the towns near there, and John wrote this letter to those churches.

At that time, there were some bad teachers that went around telling lies in the churches. Some of them said that Jesus was not the special man that God promised to send. And some of them said it doesn’t matter if Christians do bad things. So John wrote this letter to tell the Christians not to listen to those bad teachers. He told the Christians that they have to keep on believing God’s true message and stay joined up with Jesus. And he told them that they have to keep on loving each other, just like God loves them. John wanted those Christians to be really sure that they belonged to God, and that they will live for ever with God.

This letter is still very important for us today. There are lots of people in the world today that don’t believe God’s true message and don’t live God’s way. Sometimes those people make trouble for Christians, and sometimes they try to get Christians to go wrong. This letter helps us Christians remember that we are joined up with Jesus, so we can stay strong and keep living God’s way. And it helps us remember to always love each other, just like God loves us.