1Jo 3:8 | TNotes | STEP | 3:8 destroy: This does not mean “to annihilate” but “to break down” (see Eph 2:14 ), “to undo,” or “to render ineffective.” Christ did not obliterate Satan; he came to undo the works of the devil by freeing people from sin and its awful consequences.

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‏ 1 John 3:8

3:8 ^a destroy: This does not mean “to annihilate” but “to break down” (see Eph 2:14 ^b), “to undo,” or “to render ineffective.” Christ did not obliterate Satan; he came to undo the works of the devil by freeing people from sin and its awful consequences.