Until You Know: A Verse-by-Verse Bible Study

A prisoner prays for a church far away — and overflows with joy. The prayer moves from thanksgiving to one of the most assuring sentences in Scripture: He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion. For everyone with an unfinished life: the verdict on your future belongs to His faithfulness, not your grip.Go deeper in the free companion study — this passage, at your own pace: https://interactivebiblestudio.com.

The greeting nobody skims twice. Paul had the rank of apostle and chose the word slave; he calls a struggling church saints — all of them; and in one breath he names the Father and the Son as a single fountain of grace and peace. Two verses on whoyou are, whose you are, and where every good thing comes from.

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A man in a Roman prison, chained to a soldier, waiting to learn whether he lives or dies — and the letter he writes is overflowing with joy.

Season two of Until You Know walks verse by verse through Philippians: joy in chains, the descending mind of Christ, the surpassing worth of knowing him, and a peace that stands guard over the heart. Seventeen episodes, a few verses at a time.

New episodes begin Monday, September 7 — one each weekday.

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The whole letter, gathered. Light, love, and truth; the tests and the assurance they serve; the Advocate, the anointing, the family resemblance, and the love that casts out fear — read back through the letter's own claim: these things I have written that you may know. One letter, one knowing, one final act of beholding.

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The sentence the whole letter was written for: I have written these things to you who believe, that you may know that you have eternal life. Confidence in prayer, the intercession we owe each other, three great "we knows" — and the letter's last word, sudden and tender: little children, keep yourselves fromidols.

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Three witnesses in agreement — the Spirit, the water, and the blood — and a testimony greater than any human court: the testimony God has given about His Son. This is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. Whoever has the Son has life.

** *A note on verses 7–8: this reading follows theearliest Greek manuscripts, as nearly all modern translations do (including the Berean Standard Bible we read from). Some older English Bibles include a longer wording here ("the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit") that entered the manuscript tradition much later. Nothing in the passage's teaching — or the Bible's teaching on the Trinity — depends on the longer wording.***

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Everyone born of God overcomes the world — and this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith. Why His commandments are not burdensome, how faith and love andobedience interlock, and who actually overcomes: only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.Go deeper in the free companion study — this passage, at your own pace: https://interactivebiblestudio.com

Confidence for the day of judgment — for in this world we are just like Him. There is no fear in love; perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. Where assurance actually comes from, why we love at all — He first loved us — and the brother test that keeps love honest.

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Not merely that God loves — God is love. And love was defined, not felt: God sent His one and only Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Love consists in this — not that we loved God, but that He loved us. Why loved people love, and how the invisible God is seen among us.

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Do not believe every spirit. Many false prophets have gone out — so how does an ordinary believer tell truth from deception? The confession that marks the Spirit of God, the antichrist spirit already in the world, and the promise for theoutnumbered: greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
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