The concept of “truth” figures considerably in John’s first epistle. Throughout the five-chapter letter, John urges his community of faith to remember the truth that “was from the beginning” (1 Jn 1:1; 2:7, 13–14; 3:11), by which John intends for his readers to recall the timeless witness of Scripture when confronted with the deceptive testimony of the “false prophets” that “have gone out into the world.” (1 Jn 4:1) Evident throughout the trio of epistles from the apostle John is the burden for his “dear friends” to find confidence and confirmation in the truths of the Word. “The letters themselves,” G. M. Burge affirms, “were written in the midst of a severe and desperate theological debate.”