In reading coverage, for the Old Testament, that's Daniel 1 through 12 and Hosea 1 through 7 or so, and we can break that into seven days as follows:
Dec 10 Dn 1, 2
Dec 11 Dn 3, 4
Dec 12 Dn 5, 6
Dec 13 Dn 7, 8, 9
Dec 14 Dn 9, 10, 11
Dec 15 Dn 11, 12, Ho 1, 2, 3
Dec 16 Ho 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
For the New Testament, that's 1 John 5, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, and Rev 1-3 or so, and we can break that into seven days as follows:
Dec 10 1 Jn 5
Dec 11 2 Jn (1), 3 Jn (1)
Dec 12 3 Jn (1), Jude (1)
Dec 13 Jude (1), Rev 1
Dec 14 Rev 1, 2
Dec 15 Rev 2, 3
Dec 16(-17) Rev 3, 4
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On 1 Jn 5:1ff.
Trying to interpret 5:1 as a "minimum" to have been born of God, is just as bad here as trying to put ad hocs into it to make it sound like a stern minimum. 1 John is not a book of the minimums of how-to-have-been-born of God, and Nicodemus from John 3 will second this verse after his conversation with Jesus, that there are nominimum-how-to procedures, of doables on our end, for forcing God to beget spiritually. One preacher rightly said that we can't hang fruit on our branches to become a fruit tree. And about ourselves as trees, having born fruit through our union with Christ, yet knowing our internals, we hope for the best on its quality.
This "whoever ...," or "everyone who ...," in 5:1 is one of a large group of phrases in 1 John, the "pas ho" phrases in the Greek: (2:23,29; 3:3,4,6,9,10,15; 4:7; 5:1,18). Of these, 2:29, 3:9, 4:7, 5:1, and 5:18 are directly about the term "born of God," and we must had the "pan to," the "everything that," of 5:4, because it is also about that term.
In these six verses, to have been born of God is a conclusion in our verse 5:1 here, and in 2:29, and in 4:7. In the other three, to have been born of God is premise in 3:9, 5:4, and 5:18. There are two premises in 3:9. So, hasty that we tend to be, we may ask 2:29, 4:7, 5:1 and their composite, from what can we draw the conclusion that everyone who ... has been born of God? Here are the verses in one translation:
2:29: "if you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him."
4:7; "beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God."
5:1: "whoever believes tht Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him."
The main mistake we make in applying these verses is to add time qualifications to them: some kind of interval of time over which "practices," "loves," and "believes that ..." must be true, to be really true. The subjectiveness (as well as the variety of time qualifications people make) of that should be obvious!
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