1 John Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A believer reflects on the hope of seeing Christ as he is. According to 1 John 3, what response should this hope encourage?
Purifying oneself as Christ is pure
Withdrawing from everyone who does not share the hope
Attempting to calculate when Christ will appear
Treating present conduct as spiritually irrelevant
2. A believer asks how prayer can be offered with the confidence described in 1 John 5. Which approach matches the letter?
Ask according to God’s will, trusting that he hears
Repeat the request until uncertainty is completely eliminated
Depend on another person’s spiritual status to make the request effective
Ask for anything desired while assuming the exact request must be granted
3. How does 1 John 3:4 define sin?
Sin is simply a lack of religious knowledge
Sin is any experience of fear
Sin is lawlessness
Sin is uncertainty about the future
4. A person’s relationship with God is dominated by dread of punishment. What does 1 John 4 say about the relationship between perfected love and this kind of fear?
Perfect love casts out fear, because fear has to do with punishment
Perfected love intensifies fear so that obedience becomes unavoidable
Love and fear of punishment are presented as identical motives
Fear disappears only when a person gains complete knowledge of the future
5. A reader says the command to love one another must be entirely new. How does 1 John 2 present this command?
It replaces every command previously given to God’s people
It is new only because it applies exclusively to church leaders
It is described as old, yet also new because its truth is seen in Christ and his people
It is old and therefore no longer binding on the letter’s readers
6. A person has adequate resources, notices a fellow believer in genuine need, but closes their heart and refuses help. What question does 1 John 3 raise about this response?
Whether the person has received enough public recognition
Whether the person understands ceremonial purification
How God’s love can abide in that person
Whether the person has chosen the correct place of worship
7. Who does 1 John 2 identify as the advocate with the Father when believers sin?
The apostle who founded the congregation
Jesus Christ the righteous
An angel appointed to each believer
The believer’s own clear conscience
8. Someone becomes aware of having sinned and wants to respond in the way described in 1 John 1:9. What should the person do?
Hide the failure until stronger habits have been formed
Balance the failure by performing an equal number of good deeds
Wait until another believer identifies the failure
Confess the sin, trusting God to forgive and cleanse
9. Which statement best expresses the initiative behind love in 1 John 4?
Love begins only after complete moral perfection is achieved
Love begins when human beings prove themselves worthy of God
Love begins with fear of other people’s judgment
Love begins with God, who loved us and sent his Son
10. A person says, “I have fellowship with God,” while deliberately continuing to walk in darkness. According to 1 John 1, how should that claim be assessed?
The person lies and does not practice the truth
The claim cannot be assessed by conduct in any way
The claim is valid as long as the person has correct beliefs
The person has already reached spiritual perfection
11. What is the substance of God’s testimony described in 1 John 5:11-12?
God guarantees that believers will avoid every earthly hardship
God gives eternal life through possession of secret knowledge
God grants eternal life through ancestry within a covenant community
God has given eternal life, and this life is in his Son
12. According to 1 John 2, which denial characterizes “the antichrist” in that passage?
Denying that believers should own possessions
Denying the Father and the Son, including that Jesus is the Christ
Denying that John was an eyewitness
Denying that the Roman Empire would continue
13. After describing the testimony about the Word of life, what purpose does 1 John 1 give for proclaiming it to readers?
So readers can determine the date of Christ’s return
So readers may share fellowship with the witnesses, the Father, and his Son
So readers can distinguish Jewish believers from Gentile believers
So readers may receive authority over local congregations
14. A teacher claims to speak by God’s Spirit. According to 1 John 4, what confession is central when testing that claim?
That spiritual knowledge removes the need to love others
That Jesus Christ has come in the flesh
That Jesus appeared spiritual but did not truly come as a human being
That every sincere religious path teaches the same message
15. In the opening of 1 John, what does the writer say was heard, seen, looked upon, and touched?
The spirit of the antichrist
The law written on human hearts
The heavenly city
The Word of life
16. Someone argues that every spiritual message should be accepted without examination because believers have an anointing. Which response best combines 1 John’s teachings?
The anointing means every private impression is automatically true
Only messages delivered by a large group need to be tested
The anointing abides in believers, but claimed spirits must still be tested against the truth about Jesus
Testing is unnecessary if a speaker uses Christian vocabulary