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==Content== The main themes of the epistle are love and fellowship with God.<ref name="Wilder214">Wilder, p. 214</ref><ref name="Barbour346">Barbour, p. 346</ref> The author describes various tests by which readers may ascertain whether or not their communion with God is genuine, and teaches that the proof of spiritual regeneration is a life of active righteousness.<ref>Barbour, p. 348</ref> It also distinguishes between the world (which is full of evil and under the dominion of Satan) and the children of God (who are set apart from the world).<ref name="Burton368"/>
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