1 John 2:3
What meaning of the 1 john 2:3 in the Bible?
What does 1 John 2:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments."
What does 1 John 2:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments."
Verse 1 John 2:3. _AND HEREBY WE DO KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM_] If we keep the commandments of God, loving him with all our heart, and our neighbour as ourselves, we have the fullest proof that we have th...
AND HEREBY WE DO KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM - To wit, by that which follows, we have evidence that we are truly acquainted with him, and with the requirements of his religion; that is, that we are truly hi...
II. LIGHT AND DARKNESS AND THE TESTS Chapter S 1:5-2:17 _ 1. God is light; walking in darkness and in light (1 John 1:5)_ 2. What the light manifests (1 John 1:8) 3. The advocacy of Christ to main...
OBEDIENCE THE PROOF OF FELLOWSHIP. Here John repeats in a positive way the teaching of the previous section. Conduct cannot be, as the false teachers claimed, a matter of indifference, for true knowle...
HEREBY WE KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM. What we need is knowledge. It is very, unsatisfactory to only think that Christ is the Son of God and our Savior. We want to _know_ upon whom we have believed. To _kn...
A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
HEREBY. in (App-104.) this. KNOW. App-132. The second "know" is in perf. tense, as in 1 John 2:4 also....
1 John 2:1-6. Obedience to God by Imitation of Christ 1 6. The Apostle is still treating of the condition and conduct of the believer as determined by his walking in the light; there is no break betw...
1 John 2:1-6. OBEDIENCE TO GOD BY IMITATION OF CHRIST 1–6. The Apostle is still treating of the condition and conduct of the believer as determined by his walking in the light; there is no break betw...
ΓΙΝΏΣΚΟΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать, ΈΓΝΏΚΑΜΕΝ _perf. act. ind. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать. Временные формы имеют значение; мы учимся воепринимать все более и более ясно, что наше з...
DISCOURSE: 2434 THE TRUE TEST OF LOVE TO GOD 1 John 2:3. _Hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and...
HEREBY WE DO KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM— To _know_ Christ, to _love him,_ to _have him,_ and to _be in him,_ are in this epistle used as synonymous terms, or very nearly so. St. John had in the former chap...
HEREBY WE KNOW PART II 1 John 1:8-10; 1 John 2:1-29 God Is Light. To Walk In The Light Is To Have Fellowship With Him Fellowship Is Tested By Our Sharing of God's Attitude Toward: 1. Personal Guil...
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. HEREBY, [ en (G1722) touto (G5124)] - 'in this.' 'It is herein only that we know (present) that we have knowledge of (perfect: o...
VERSE 3. AND HEREBY WE DO KNOW. To gather the thought here intended, just take the last clause first, thus: "If we keep his commandments?' We by that means know that is our evidence that we know him....
1 The ministry of John is based upon his personal acquaintance with the Lord in the flesh. Indeed, this was the prime qualification of all the twelve apostles (Act_1:21). They were to bear witness to...
2:3 know (a-7) _ Ginosko_ . and so throughout chapter, except vers. 11,20,21,29 (first), _ oida_ . Perfect tense here. 'have come to know him, and continue so to do;' and so vers. 4,13,14....
THE ADVOCACY OF CHRIST AND THE OBLIGATIONS OF BELIEVERS 1. My little children] The diminutive implies the fatherly care which the aged Apostle felt for his disciples. ADVOCATE] The word thus translate...
HOW CAN I BE SURE? 1 JOHN _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 2 CHRIST SPEAKS FOR US AND WE SHOULD OBEY GOD (1 JOHN 2:1-6) V1 My *children, I write these things to you so that you will not *sin. But if you d...
The fourth inference from the doctrine that God is Light analyses more accurately the general expression of 1 John 1:7, _walking in the light._ If Christ is, as in 1 John 2:1, the Paraclete and Propit...
The principle is that it is not enough to understand the theory; we must put it into practice. _E.g._, what makes an artist? Not merely learning the rules of perspective and mixture of colours, but ac...
KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENT OF LOVE 1 John 2:1 It is clearly possible to be kept from known and presumptuous sin. We shall be tempted, for that is an inevitable experience of life in this world; but we m...
Affirming that the purpose of his writing is that we sin not, the writer declared that even if we sin, provision is made by which it may be put away. The tests whereby we may know our relation to ligh...
FEELINGS ARE NOT A VALID TEST There are those who answer the question, "Do you know God?", by saying, "Yes, I can feel His presence in my heart." While it may help one to feel he has God's presence wi...
(2) And hereby we do know that we (e) know him, (e) if we keep his commandments. (2) He returns to the testimony of our union with God, that is, to sanctification, declaring what it is to walk in the...
_We have known him, if we keep his commandments. He speaks of that practical knowledge by love and affection, which can be only proved by our keeping his commandments; and without which we cannot be s...
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. (4) He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. (5) But whoso keepeth his...
_COMFORTABLE WORDS_ ‘If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous: and He is the propitiation for our sins.’ 1 John 2:1 ‘Hear also what St. John saith.’ So our te...
3_And hereby_, or _by this_. After having treated of the doctrine respecting the gratuitous remission of sins, he comes to the exhortations which belong to it, and which depend on it. And first indeed...
If, on the other hand, we have even committed sin and all, being judged according to the light, is confessed (so that the will no longer takes part in it, the pride of that will being broken down), He...
AND HEREBY WE DO KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM,.... Either the Father, with whom Christ is an advocate; not as the God of nature, and by the light of it, nor as the lawgiver and Judge of the whole earth, and...
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. Ver. 3. _We know that we know him_] By a reflex act of the soul; hence the assurance of faith, the fruit of fruitfulness, 1 Corint...
_Hereby we do know that we_, truly and savingly, _know him_ As he is the Advocate, the righteous One, the Propitiation; _if we keep his commandments_ Particularly those of faith and love. _He that sai...
THAT WE KNOW HIM; to know God, in the scriptural sense of the words, is to have experimental acquaintance and communion with him as our Father and Friend. Such knowledge and fellowship are always conn...
AND HEREBY WE DO KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM, IF WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS....
“My children, these things I write to you in order that ye may not sin; and if anyone sin, we have a patron with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (JND). If we have seen some absolute, positive...
3-11 What knowledge of Christ can that be, which sees not that he is most worthy of our entire obedience? And a disobedient life shows there is neither religion nor honesty in the professor. The love...
OLBGrk; This faith is often in the Holy Scripture signified by the name of knowledge, ISAIAH 53:11 1 THESSALONIANS 17:3, viz. an appropriative, transformative knowledge, by which we own and accept God...
Cyprian Epistle XXIV He that saith he knoweth Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him."[3]...
1 John 2:3 Now G2532 by G1722 this G5129 know G1097 (G5719) that G3754 know G1097 (G5758) Him G846 if G1437 keep G5083 (G5725) His G846 commandments G1785 hereby - 1 John 2:4-6, 1 John 3:14,...
HOW THEN CAN WE KNOW THAT WE TRULY KNOW CHRIST? (1 JOHN 2:3). Many were claiming that they knew God, that they had special knowledge of Him, that through their own particular religious ordinances the...
1 John 2:1-3. MY LITTLE CHILDREN: instead of giving the antithesis to the third ‘if any man say,' St. John, the father of the churches of that time, directly addresses those whose character formed tha...
HEREBY (εν τουτω). See this phrase also in 1 John 2:5; 1 John 3:16; 1 John 3:19; 1 John 3:24; 1 John 4:2; 1 John 4:13; 1 John 5:2. That is explained by the εαν clause, "if we keep his commandments...
COMMANDMENTS John uses "commandments" (1) in the general sense of the divine will, however revealed, "his word"; (1 John 2:5); and (2) especially of the law of Christ. (Galatians 6:2); (2 John 1:5)...
1 John 2:1 The True Idea of Man. I. St. John had a special reason for using this tender phrase, "my little children," in this place. All sin is connected by the Apostle with the loss of fellowship. A...
1 John 2:1. _My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not._ That you may abstain from it, and abhor it, and not indulge in anything that would lead you towards it. 1 John 2:1....
CONTENTS: Christ's advocacy for the believer. Tests of fellowship, obedience and love. Warning against worldliness and apostates. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, John, Satan, anti-christ. CONCLUSION: To kn...
1 John 2:2. _He is the propitiation for our sin:_ ιλασμος, a ram, or other victim offered as an atoning sacrifice for sin. On Genesis 15:9, the rabbins make a distinction between the heifer, the she g...
IF WE OBEY. Some said as soon as you _knew_ there was a True God, you had eternal life, regardless of how you lived. John is saying that the only way to _identify_ one who does _know God,_ is by THEIR...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 2:3 BY THIS WE KNOW. Assurance of salvation is possible (see note on 2 Pet. 1:10). 1 John 1:1 mentions several tests that give assurance (see 1 John 1:7; 1 John 2:5; 1 John 3:14;...
CHAPTER 2 VER. 1. _My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not._ At the end of the last chapter it was said that all who were grown up had sinned, either mortally as heathens, o...
PROVISION FOR THE SINNING OF BELIEVERS _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ FIRMLY does St. John declare that the Christian should not sin, and must not sin. But he clearly recognises that Christians do...
EXPOSITION 1 JOHN 2:1, 1 JOHN 2:2 Moreover, walking in the light involves accepting the propitiation wrought through Jesus Christ the Righteous. The connexion with the preceding is close. We have ju...
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not (1 John 2:1). Now, he is talking about the purpose of writing is to bring you into fellowship with God, but the thing that breaks fel...
1 John 2:4; 1 John 3:14; 1 John 3:19; 1 John 3:22; 1 John 3:23; 1 John 4:13; 1 John 5:19; 1 John 5:3; 1 Thessalonians 4:1; 1 Thessalonians 4:2
Hereby [ε ν τ ο υ τ ω]. Lit., in this. Characteristic of John. See John 8:35; John 14:8; John 16:30; 1 John 2:5; 1 John 3:24; 1 John 4:13; 1 John 5:2; 1 John 3:16; 1 John 3:19; 1 John 4:2
And hereby we know that we truly and savingly know him — As he is the advocate, the righteous, the propitiation. If we keep his commandments — Particularly those of faith and love....
Observe here, 1. That. Christian may be assured of his salvation; to know that we know, is to be assured that we know; not only to have the vital, but the fiducial act of faith. Some Christians can sa...