1 John 5:3
What meaning of the 1 john 5:3 in the Bible?
What does 1 John 5:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous."
What does 1 John 5:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous."
Verse 1 John 5:3. _FOR THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD_] This the love of God necessarily produces. It is vain to pretend love to God while we live in opposition to his will. _HIS COMMANDMENTS_] To love him...
FOR THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD, THAT WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS - This constitutes true love; this furnishes the evidence of it. AND HIS COMMANDMENTS ARE NOT GRIEVOUS - Greek, “heavy” - βαρεῖαι bareiai; t...
V. HEREBY WE KNOW Chapter S 3:19-5:13 _ 1. Hereby we know that we are of the truth (1 John 3:19)_ 2. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God (1 John 4:1) 3. Hereby know we the Spirit of truth and of erro...
The marks of true children of God are a correct view of Christ's person, love to God and one another, obedience to God's commandment, and faith, this being the victorious principle by which the world...
LOVE WITHIN THE DIVINE FAMILY (1 John 5:1-2)...
LOVE. App-135. THAT. Greek. _hina._ Keeping His commandments is. result of His love being shed abroad in our hearts (Romans 5:5). Compare Psalms 119:97; Psalms 119:119; Psalms 119:163, &c. KEEP. See...
Faith is the Source of Love, the Victory over the World and the Possession of Life 1. _Whosoever believeth_ Or, _Every one that believeth_: the construction is identical with that in 1Jn 2:29, 1 John...
1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12. GOD IS LOVE There seems to be no serious break in the Epistle from this point onwards until we reach the concluding verses which form a sort of summary (1 John 5:13-21). Th...
Ή ΆΓΆΠΗ ΤΟΎ ΘΕΟΎ любовь Бога. Объекта, _gen._, любовь, объектом которой является Бог. Основная идея в том, что наша любовь к Богу должна выражаться в выполнении его заповеди любви к ближнему (Brown),...
DISCOURSE: 2462 THE COMMANDMENTS NOT GRIEVOUS 1 John 5:3. _His commandments are not grievous_. IT is a painful office which I have to discharge at this time. I must vindicate religion from an aspers...
FOR THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD,— The love of God is a principle in the heart of a regenerated man, which leads him to keep the commandments of God; and which cannot be visibly manifested any other way; f...
CHAPTER XIV _RIGHTEOUSNESSDEMONSTRATION OF LOVE_ 1 John 4:17-21; 1 John 5:1-3 A. _The Text_ Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgement; because as he is...
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. THIS IS - the love of God consists in this. NOT GRIEVOUS - as many think them. It is 'the way o...
VERSE 3. FOR THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD. The natural expression of our love of God that is to say, its outward expression is in obedience. We obey the commands; this shows our love. By this standard we...
3 The spirit of antichrist is the spirit of the world. It does not want the Christ of the Scriptures, but prefers some substitute more suited to its taste. This spirit has come to pervade, not only th...
THE LOVE, OBEDIENCE, AND ASSURANCE OF BELIEVERS 1. The reason for brotherly love. 2. This is the converse of 1 John 4:19. Love to God and love to the brethren being inseparable, each is the test of...
HOW CAN I BE SURE? 1 JOHN _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 5 *FAITH OVERCOMES THE *WORLD (1 JOHN 5:1-5) V1 Jesus is the *Christ. Everyone who believes this has been born of God. Everyone who loves the fat...
V. (8.) FAITH THE TEST OF LOVE (1 John 5:1). (_a_) _Its power_ (1 John 5:1). (_b_) _The evidence on which it rests_ (1 John 5:6). (_c_) _What it contains_ (1 John 5:11). (8 _a._) St. John has...
CHAPTER 15 BIRTH AND VICTORY 1 John 5:3 ST. JOHN here connects the Christian Birth with Victory. He tells us that of the supernatural life the destined and (so to speak) natural end is Conquest. N...
What makes the Commandments of God easy. “Every one that hath faith that Jesus is the Christ hath been begotten of God; and every one that loveth Him that begat loveth him that hath been begotten of H...
THE VICTORIOUS LIFE 1 John 5:1 The “begotten” children of God are constantly referred to in this Epistle. The word indicates the communication, in regeneration, of the divine nature, of which the fi...
The final subject is our fellowship with God in life. This is fundamental, and is shown to be so. The relationship between the life of God and the love of God is self-evident, and that is equally true...
KEEPING ON KEEPING GOD'S COMMANDMENTS If anyone really loves God, he will keep on keeping His commandments (1 John 5:3; John 14:15; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-8). John explained that those commandments are n...
(3) For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: (4) and his commandments are not (d) grievous. (3) The reason: to love God, is to keep his commandments, which being so, and seeing tha...
_ And his commandments are not heavy; not burdensome. Not but that they comprehend what seems hard to human frailty, and especially to men carried away with the love of vanities in this world, who thi...
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and everyone that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. (2) By this we know that we love the children of God, when...
_THE TEST OF LOVE_ ‘For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments.’ 1 John 5:3 There are presented to us in these few words two salient features of our Christian life. I. ITS LOFTIES...
3_His commandments are not grievous _This has been added, lest difficulties, as it is usually the case, should damp or lessen our zeal. For they who with a cheerful mind and great ardor have pursued a...
But a danger exists on the other side. It may be, that we love the brethren because they are pleasant to us; they furnish us with agreeable society, in which our conscience is not wounded. A counter-p...
FOR THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD, THAT WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS,.... Keeping of the commandments of God is an evidence of love to God; this shows that love is not in word and tongue, in profession only, bu...
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. Ver. 3. _For this is, &c._] _See Trapp on "_ Joh 14:15 _"_ His commandments are not] _See Trapp on...
_Whosoever_, &c. The apostle having discoursed in the preceding Chapter s, on the privileges of the children of God, now adds a further illustration of the great essential parts of their character, in...
NOT GRIEVOUS; not burdensome and oppressive. Compare Matthew 11:30....
THE POWER, TESTIMONY, AND SUBSTANCE OF FAITH. The wonderful power of faith:...
“Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and everyone that loveth Him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of Him.” The faith that Jesus is the Christ is here seen to corre...
1-5 True love for the people of God, may be distinguished from natural kindness or party attachments, by its being united with the love of God, and obedience to his commands. The same Holy Spirit tha...
FOR THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD, i.e. this is the most lively, certain expression and effect of our love to God, our keeping his commandments, which are so little grievous, that true love can make no diff...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III For the love meant is the love of God. "And this is the love of God," says John, "that we keep His commandments; "[157] Clement of Alexandria Stromata B...
1 John 5:3 For G1063 this G3778 is G2076 (G5748) love G26 God G2316 that G2443 keep G5083 (G5725) His G846 commandments G1785 And G2532 His G846 commandments G1785 are G1526 (G5748) not G3756 burdenso...
‘Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not grievous.' And how...
The ruling idea of the third part is Faith in the Spirit's testimony concerning the Son of God incarnate. The close of chap. 3 introduces the theme by the first explicit mention of faith and the Spiri...
THIS (αυτη)--THAT (ινα). Explanatory use of ινα with αυτη, as in John 17:3, to show what "the love of God" (1 John 4:9; 1 John 4:12) in the objective sense is, not mere declamatory boasting (1 Jo...
1 John 5:3 Love for God's Commands. I. People talk of "going to heaven" as if admission to future happiness had nothing to do with the bent and tone of their minds and their inward being here on eart...
1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God:_ These are very simple words, but they contain a great depth of meaning. The teaching conveyed by this Epistle is very profou...
CONTENTS: Faith the overcoming principle. The advantages of faith in salvation, prayer, preservation from sin. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Satan, John. CONCLUSION: He who has been born aga...
1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God._ The faith which embraces him as the Lord of glory, has a regenerating influence on the heart. The immediate fruit is love to...
MEANS THAT WE OBEY. See John 14:23 and note. We cannot divorce _faith_ from _action_ (James 2:22). ARE NOT TOO HARD. _MacKnight_ says: "To a good man in ordinary circumstances, the keeping of God's co...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:1 Faith in the Son as the Way to Life. So far, John has written much about love and obedience, but not so much about faith. He now shifts to the importance of believing in the...
FAITH THE SOURCE OF LOVE, AND LOVE THE FRUIT OF FAITH _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ GENUINE faith in Christ is the sure sign of the new life—faith in the sense of living, daily trust. The faith wh...
EXPOSITION 1 JOHN 5:1 Faith is the source of love. 1 JOHN 5:1 The verse is a sorites. To believe in the Incarnation involves birth from God. To be born of God involves loving God. To love God invo...
Chuck Smith Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him (1 John 5:1). So I say, "I love Jesus. He is...
2 John 1:6; Daniel 9:4; Deuteronomy 10:12; Deuteronomy 10:13; Deuteronomy 5:10; Deuteronomy 7:9; Exodus 20:6; Hebrews 8:10; John 14:15;...
Grievous [β α ρ ε ι α ι]. Lit., heavy. The word occurs six times in the New Testament. Acts 20:29, violent, rapacious; "grievous wolves" : 2 Corinthians 10:10, weighty, impressive, of Paul's letters :...
SOME THINGS WE MAY KNOW 1 John 5:1, _1 John 5:11_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS There may be some places where uncertainties lend enchantment to the view, but in matters of life and death we want full assuran...
For this is the love of God — The only sure proof of it. That we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous — To any that are born of God....
Our apostle in these words gives. threefold description of. sincere Christian. He describes him, 1. By his inward affection to God and Christ, and that is love; this is shed abroad in his heart. 2....