Discovery Box1 John 1:3 
Context1:3 What we have seen and heard we announce 1 to you too, so that 2 you may have fellowship 3 with us (and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).
1 John 2:7
Context2:7 Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. 4 The old commandment is the word that you have already 5 heard.
1 John 2:13
Context2:13 I am writing to you, fathers, that 6 you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, that 7 you have conquered the evil one. 8
1 tn Or “proclaim.”
2 tn The ἵνα (Jina) here indicates purpose.
3 tn Or “communion”; or “association” (a reality shared in common, so in this case, “genuine association”). This term also occurs in vv. 6, 7.
4 sn See John 13:34-35.
5 tn “Already” is not is the Greek text, but is supplied for clarity.
6 tn See the note on “that” in v. 12.
7 tn See the note on “that” in v. 12.
8 sn The phrase the evil one is used in John 17:15 as a reference to Satan. Satan is also the referent here and in the four other occurrences in 1 John (2:14; 3:12; 5:18, 19).
