Our Help: Advocate and Advantage (verses 1-2) Sinning after being born again is unnatural but inevitable, so we must depend on our Advocate for assurance of our position and strength in our practice.
Our Occupation: Commandments and Communion (verses 3-6) Keeping God's commandments is necessary to abide in fellowship and deepen our personal knowledge of Him.
Our Warning: Darkness and Disappointment (verses 7-11) The greatest event in history has happened for our benefit: the Incarnation. As such, we must walk in this new Light, or else live outside of Christ's blessed favor.