The three epistles of John urge the church to love one another as God has loved them, and they do it while a crisis of false teaching is unfolding in the background.

Gary Derickson shows how these letters encourage believers and warn against the rise of false teachers, and he is careful to avoid speculative reconstructions, keeping John's pastoral concerns in view. He examines the Greek text in detail and interacts with recent scholarship while presenting the message of the epistles for ordinary believers. Part of the Evangelical Exegetical Commentary series.