1. Watson, “ ‘Keep Yourselves from Idols,’ ” 288.
2. Ibid., 288–89.
3. Yarbrough, 1–3 John, 300 (italics original).
4. Culy, I, II, III John, 134.
5. Brown, Epistles of John, 607, 610.
6. See Brooke, Johannine Epistles, 146; Bultmann, Johannine Epistles, 87 n16; Haas, Letters of John, 150.
7. Yarbrough, 1–3 John, 310.
8. Ibid., 307.
9. Westcott, Epistles of St. John, 191.
10. Burge, Letters of John, 216.
11. Chiefly authored by Aquinas according to Grayston, Johannine Epistles, 143.
12. Grayston, Johannine Epistles, 144.
13. Westcott, Epistles of St. John, 192.
14. Thompson, 1–3 John, 142.
15. Marshall, Epistles of John, 248.
16. Kruse, Letters of John, 194.
17. David M. Scholer, “Sins Within and Sins Without: An Interpretation of 1 John 5:16–17,” in Current Issues in Biblical and Patristic Interpretation (ed. Gerald F. Hawthorne; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975), 232; see also Thompson, 1–3 John, 142.
18. Randall K. J. Tan, “Should We Pray for Straying Brethern? John’s Confidence in 1 John 5:16–17,” JETS 45 (2002): 599–609.
19. Wallace, Greek Grammar, 475; Culy, I, II, III John, 136.
20. Marshall, Epistles of John, 246 n19.
21. Brown, Epistles of John, 613.
22. Dodd, Johannine Epistles, 137.
23. Marshall, Epistles of John, 248–49.
24. Ibid., 248.
25. Painter, 1, 2, and 3 John, 322.
26. Brown, Epistles of John, 609.
27. Ibid., 622.
28. See Yarbrough, 1–3 John, 4.
29. For an analysis of these verbs in the structure of 1 John, see B. A. du Toit, “The Role and Meaning of Statements of ‘Certainty’ in the Structural Composition of 1 John,” Neot 13 (1979): 84–100.
30. Italics are added to the Scripture citations in all cases.
31. Dodd, Johannine Epistles, 140 (bold original).
32. M. J. Edwards, “Martyrdom and the First Epistle of John,” NovT 31 (1989): 164–71; Julian Hills, “ ‘Little Children, Keep Yourselves from Idols’: 1 John 5:21 Reconsidered,” CBQ 51 (1989): 285–310.
33. Brown, Epistles of John, 627–28.
34. J. N. Sugit “I John 5:21: ΤΕΚΝΙΑ, ΦΥΛΑΞΑΤΕ ΕΑΥΤΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΩΝ ΕΙΔΩΛΩΝ,” JTS 36 (1985): 386–90.
35. Brown, Epistles of John, 641.
36. Dodd, Johannine Epistles, 141.
37. Yarbrough, 1, 2, 3 John, 325, citing Daniel L. Akin, 1, 2, 3 John (NAC 38; Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2001), 215–16.
38. Griffith, Keep Yourselves, 207.
39. Dodd, Johannine Epistles, 141.
40. Brown, Epistles of John, 627–28; Kruse, Letters of John, 202; Smalley, 1–3 John, 310; Smith, First, Second, and Third John, 137; von Wahlde, Gospel and Letters, 3:215; Watson, “ ‘Keep Yourselves from Idols,’ ” 298.
41. C. Marvin Pate, The Writings of John (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011), 316.
42. Marshall, Epistles of John, 255.
43. Yarbrough, 1–3 John, 323.
44. Ibid.
45. Lieu, I, II, & III John, 237–38.
46. Bede, Commentary on 1 John, in Bray, ACCS 11, 229.
47. Dodd, Johannine Epistles, 142.
48. http://religions.pewforum.org/reports (accessed 25 June 2012).
49. Marshall, Epistles of John, 256.
50. John Calvin, The Institutes of the Christian Religion (ed. John T. McNeill; trans. Ford Lewis Battles; Philadelphia: Westminster, 1980), 1.2.2.