How do. You Know You are Forgiven? (1 John 1:9) - Mondays with Mounce Well-known verses are hard to translate. Even if the historical translation is a little off, committees are slow to change. 1 John 1:9 is one of those verses. The KJV reads, “If we confess ...

Jesus is the Gospel (1 John 1:1) - Mondays with Mounce When I start to write a letter, my emphasis is on clarity. Not so with John. In fact, there are quite a few exegetical difficulties in v 1 that don’t get cleared up right away.John starts wi...

Does the Present Tense Necessarily Mean “Now but not later”? (1 Tim 2:12) - Mond... 1 Timothy 2:12 is one of the most debated verses today. My point in discussing it is not to enter into the general debate but to deal with an erroneous misunderstanding of the present t...