1. John Calvin, The Gospel according to St. John 11–21 and the First Epistle of John, accessed from Accordance Calvin’s Commentaries (complete), formatted and hypertexted by OakTree Software, version 1.7.
2. Urban C. von Wahlde (The Gospel and Letters of John [Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010], 3:101) stands alone in taking this ὅτι clause as a second part of the content of what “we will know,” i.e., “we know that we will be like him and that we will see him as he is.” He must also supply a καί, for which there is no textual evidence.
3. With thanks to Prof. John Zimmermann for this conversation.
4. Yarbrough, 1–3 John, 182.
5. Culy, I, II, III John, 71.
6. Burge, Letters of John, 150; Thompson, 1–3 John, 94–95; Westcott, Epistles of John, 104.
7. Marshall, Epistles of John, 181.
8. Wallace, Greek Grammar, 524–25.
9. Cited by Marshall, Epistles of John, 181 n20.
10. See Colin G. Kruse, “Sin and Perfection in 1 John,” ABR 51 (2003): 60–70.
11. Kruse, Letters of John, 125.
12. Brown, Epistles of John, 413.
13. Ibid., 81–83, 413.
14. H. C. Swadling, “Sin and Sinlessness in 1 John,” SJT 35 (1982): 205–11, cited by Smalley, 1, 2, 3 John, 162.
15. Kruse, “Sin and Perfection in 1 John,” 66.
16. Ibid., 69–70.
17. Marshall, Epistles of John, 183.
18. As Yarbrough, 1–3 John, 193.
19. Dodd, Johannine Epistles, 77–78.
20. Kruse, Letters of John, 125.
21. Culy, I, II, III John, 77; also the CEB translation, “Those born from God don’t practice sin because God’s DNA remains in them.”
22. Lieu, I, II, & III John, 138.
23. Ibid.
24. Köstenberger, Theology of John’s Gospel and Letters, 268.