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1 John 2:5
But whoso keepeth His Word, in him, verily, is the love of God perfected; hereby know we that we are in Him.
But whoso keepeth His Word, in him, verily, is the love of God perfected; hereby know we that we are in Him.
Verse 1 John 2:5. _BUT WHOSO KEEPETH HIS WORD_] Conscientiously observes his doctrine, the spirit and letter of the religion of Christ. _IS THE LOVE OF GOD PERFECTED_] The design of God's love in se...
BUT WHOSO KEEPETH HIS WORD - That is, what he has spoken or commanded, The term “word” here will include all that he has made known to us as his will in regard to our conduct. IN HIM VERILY IS THE LOV...
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 maint...
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...
IN HIM IS THE LOVE OF GOD PERFECTED. In whom is it made perfect? In the one who keeps his word. James says that faith is made perfect by obedience. So is love. Not obedience to one commandment, faith...
And it is by this that we know that we have come to know him--if we keep his commandments. He who says, "I have come to know him" and who does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not...
A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
WORD. App-121. LOVE. App-135. GOD. App-98. PERFECTED. App-125....
The statement in 1 John 2:3 is still further emphasized by taking the opposite of 1 John 2:4; but with this we do not return to 1 John 2:3, but have an expansion of it. _His word_ A wider expression t...
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 betwe...
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. God is Light 1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:11. What Walking in the Light involves This section is largely directed against the Gnostic do
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:11. WHAT WALKING IN THE LIGHT INVOLVES This section is largely directed against the Gnostic doctrine that to the man of enlightenment all conduct is morally indifferent. Against...
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 betwe...
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. GOD IS LIGHT...
5. The statement in 1 John 2:3 is still further emphasized by taking the opposite of 1 John 2:4, which is the opposite of 1 John 2:3. But this does not bring us back to 1 Joh
ΤΗΡΉ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΤΗΡΈΩ (G5083) хранить. _Conj._ с обобщающим или indef. rel. _pron._ ός άν, в значении: "любой, кто хранит" ΑΛΗΘΏΣ (G230) _adv._, истинно, Ή ΆΓΆΠΗ ΤΟΎ ΘΕΟΫ любовь Бога. _G...
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...
HIS WORD— The word of Jesus Christ; the same with his _commandments_ in the preceding verse. The _love of God_ is sometimes put for that love which God bears to us; but as the _fear of God_ signifies...
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...
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. Not merely repeating the proposition, , or asserting the opposite alternative to , but exp...
VERSE 5. BUT WHOSO KEEPETH HIS WORD. Any one who keeps God's word, is he that does what is therein required, and refrains from doing what is therein prohibited; in such an one the love of God is perfe...
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...
2:5 keeps (b-3) A subjunctive, or 'shall keep.'...
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...
THE LOVE OF GOD] i.e. man's love to God: cp. 1 John 4:12, An ideal condition is here presented. Perfect obedience is evidence of perfect love....
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...
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...
ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ Θεοῦ, “the love of God,” is ambiguous like אַהֲבַת יְהֹוָה, _amor Dei, l' amore di Dio, l'amour de Dieu, die Liebe Gottes_. It might be objective genitive, “love for God,” “die Liebe zu Go...
The Proof of our Interest in Christ's Propitiation and Advocacy. “And herein we get to know that we know Him if we observe His commandments. He that saith ‘I know Him,' and observeth not His commandme...
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...
(4) But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the (f) love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in (g) him. (4) He that keeps God's commandments loves God indeed: He that loves God, is in...
_The charity of God is truly perfect. [2] Notwithstanding his lesser failings, he retains the habit of charity and grace, by which he remains united to God. --- And by this we know that we are in him;...
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...
5_But whoso keepeth _He now defines what a true keeping of God’s law is, even to love God. This passage is, I think, incorrectly explained by those who understand that they please the true God who kee...
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...
BUT WHOSO KEEPETH HIS WORD,.... Either the word of the Gospel, and the truths of it, who receives it in love, cordially embraces and retains it, and will by no means part with it, but holds it fast, a...
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. Ver. 5. _In him verily is the love of God perfected_] St John was a mere compound of sweetes...
_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...
LOVE-PERFECTED; by bringing forth its proper fruits, and thus showing that it is genuine and saving. HEREBY; by keeping 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...
His faith _worketh by love,_ GALATIANS 5:6; his love is PERFECTED, and attains its end in obedience, whereof it is the vital principle, 1 JOHN 5:3 1 THESSALONIANS 14:15. Such an efficacious governing...
1 John 2:5 But G1161 whoever G3739 keeps G302 G5083 (G5725) His G846 word G3056 truly G230 love...
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 they...
_Fellowship in the knowledge of God: obedience, love, and union, 1 John 2:3_. The best account that can be given of this section- more aphoristic than any other is that it lays down certain principle...
First the apostle announces his message that God is light and only light (1 John 1:5). Then follows (down to chap. 1 John 2:2) a universal statement of the evangelical conditions of fellowship with Hi...
1 John 2:5. BUT WHOSO KEEPETH HIS WORD: this phrase is our Lord's, both in St. John's Gospel and in the Apocalypse. Examination will show that the ‘keeping' is more interior than the ‘doing,' includin...
BUT WHOSO KEEPETH (ος δ' αν τηρη). Indefinite relative clause with modal αν and the present active subjunctive, "whoever keeps on keeping."VERILY (αληθως). Truly, of a truth. This prize is open t...
PERFECT (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 5:48). _...
1 John 2:3 Doing and Knowing. I. St. John assumes that the knowledge of God is as possible, is as real, for human beings as any knowledge they can have of each other. Nay, he goes further than this....
1 John 2:1. _My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not._ For this we ought to watch and strive, that we sin not. 1 John 2:1. _And if any man sin-_ What then? Is it a hopele...
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....
1 John 2:1. My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our...
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 kno...
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...
BUT WHOEVER OBEYS. "To obey is to develop this love by which we come to know Him and be like Him." Obedience is both the result and the proof of love. THIS IS HOW. "Obedience is how we can know we liv...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 2:5 LOVE OF GOD IS PERFECTED. This love is not only a feeling. It is also an ethical response (KEEPS HIS WORD). MAY KNOW. See note on v. 3
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...
_But whoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected._ This confirms the previous statement, by way of antithesis. The word is spoken of in the singular number, because the law of l...
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 Corinthians 1:30; 1 John 2:27; 1 John 2:28; 1 John 2:3; 1 John 2:4;...
But whoso keepeth his word — His commandments. Verily in him the love of God — Reconciled to us through Christ. Is perfected — Is perfectly known. Hereby — By our keeping his word. We know that we are...