Chapter 5

5:1 What do the writers not need to do?

5:2 What do the first readers know? What do you think about that?

5:3 What things do you learn about that ‘day’? (Look at verse 2 also.) What would people say? What would happen to them? What would the experience be like? What do you think about all that?

5:4 What was different for the people who first read this letter? (Look at verse 3 also.) What should not happen? What do you think about that?

5:5 Why should ‘you’ not be surprised? (Look at verse 4 also.) How are ‘we’ different from other people? What difference might that make?

5:6 So, what will be different? What sort of results will there be? Compare ‘ourselves’ with ‘those’. What do you think about all that?

5:7 What happens ‘at night’? What do you think about that?

5:8 Who are ‘we’? How must ‘we’ be? How should ‘our faith and love’ help us? How should ‘our hope’ help us? What do you think about those things?

5:9 What did God ‘not choose’? What did he choose for us? What do you think about all that?

5:10 Why did Jesus die? What do you learn about that? What do you think about all that?

5:11 What must the readers do? In what way should they do it? What will you do because you know that?

5:12 What do the writers request? Why? What will you do because you know that?

5:13 How should we behave towards our leaders? How should we live ‘with each other’? What will you do because you know all that?

5:14 Whom do the writers urge the readers to warn? Whom must they help? How should we be ‘with all people’? Why might the writers teach those things?

5:15 What must ‘you’ not do? What should ‘you’ aim to do? What will you do because you know these things?

5:16 What should you do always? How might that happen? What might be the result?

5:17 What must you do? What do you think about that?

5:18 What must you do ‘no matter what happens’? Why? What do you think about all that?

5:19 What should you not do? What will you do?

5:20 What should you not do? What will be different when you follow these instructions?

5:21 What must you do? What will be different when you do this?

5:22 What should you do? What will you do?

5:23 Make a list of the writers’ requests to God. What things will be different as a result? What will you do because you know that?

5:24 What has God done? What will he do? (Look at verse 23 also.) Why?

5:25 What should the readers do? What will you do?

5:26 What is the instruction? What difference might that make?

5:27 What does the writer urge? What difference might that make?

5:28 What is the prayer? What difference will his ‘ grace’ make?