Q 01/05

According to 1 John 4:18, perfect love drives out which emotion, one the verse ties to punishment?

A) Anger

B) Envy

C) Fear

D) Grief

Answer · why

C) Fear

Fear has no place in love, the verse says, and the next line explains how believers can love at all: God loved them first.

Q 02/05

Which word, found in the Bible only in 1 John and 2 John, names those who deny the Father and the Son?

A) Antichrist

B) Apostate

C) Heretic

D) Blasphemer

Answer · why

A) Antichrist

Antichrist is absent even from Revelation, and 1 John 2:18 uses it in the plural, saying many of them had already come.

Q 03/05

Which Old Testament figure does 1 John 3:12 hold up as a warning, saying his own actions were evil?

A) Esau

B) Cain

C) Absalom

D) Ahab

Answer · why

B) Cain

Cain killed his brother Abel, and 1 John gives the motive: Abel's conduct was righteous while his own was not.

Q 04/05

According to 1 John 3:15, everyone who hates his brother already counts as which kind of criminal?

A) A thief

B) A traitor

C) An adulterer

D) A murderer

Answer · why

D) A murderer

A murderer is the blunt verdict, recalling the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus sets anger at a brother beside the commandment against killing.

Q 05/05

According to 1 John 4:8, which says God is love, what does anyone who does not love fail to do?

A) Obey God

B) Know God

C) Serve God

D) Please God

Answer · why

B) Know God

Know God is what the unloving cannot do, the verse says, and the same three-word description of him returns eight verses later.