“The Joy Of Love” Lesson Text: I John 2:7-14: Series: Christian Joy: Happiness In The Lord: High School Student Sunday School Fall 2005 September, October, November:

Key Verse: I John 2:10:

King James Version: “He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.”

Interlinear Translation: “He that loves his brother, in the light abides, and cause of offence in him there is not.”

Strong’s Concordance Translation: “HE THAT LOVETH = to love much in a social or moral sense, beloved. HIS BROTHER = union, the womb, brotherhood, brotherliness, fraternity, brethern, brotherhood. ABIDETH = to stay in a given place, state, relation or expectancy, continue, dwell, continue, endure, be present, remain, stand, tarry for, thine own. IN THE LIGHT = to shine or make manifest especially by rays, luminousness, fire. AND THERE IS NONE OCCASION OF STUMBLING IN HIM = scandal, a trap stick, bent sapling, i.e. snare, figuratively cause of displeasure or sin, offence, thing that offends, stumbling block.

Lesson Focus: I John 2:7-14:

V7: The Pronouncement.

V8: The Proof.

V9: The Pretender.

V10: The Path.

V11: The Portrayal.

V12: The Paidia.

V13: The Pateres.

V14: The Possession.