Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
1 John 3:9
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in Him; and he cannot sin because he is born of God.
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in Him; and he cannot sin because he is born of God.
Verse 9. _WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD_] γεγεννημενος, _Begotten_ of God, _doth not commit sin_: "that is," say some, "as he used to do, he does not sin _habitually_ as he formerly did." This is bringing...
WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD DOTH NOT COMMIT SIN - This passage must either mean that they who are born of God, that is, who are true Christians, do not sin habitually and characteristically, or that ever...
IV. RIGHTEOUSNESS AND LOVE AS MANIFESTED BY THE CHILDREN OF GOD Chapter S 2:28-3:18 __ 1. The children of God and their coming manifestation (1 John 2:28 -1 John 3:3) 2. Sin and the new nature (1...
To commit sin is a breach of God's law, a frustration of God's work of redemption, and the manifestation of a principle which betrays kinship with the devil. A man begotten of God will be in moral aff...
REMEMBER THE PRIVILEGES OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (1 John 3:1-2)...
BORN. begotten. REMAINETH. The same as "abideth", 1 John 3:6. CANNOT. is not (App-105) able to...
This is the opposite of 1 John 3:8, as 1 John 3:8 of 1 John 3:7; but, as usual, not the plain opposite, but something deduced from it, is stated. _Whosoever is born of God_ Or, _Every one that_(see on...
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). T...
9. This is the opposite of 1 John 3:8, as 1 John 3:8 of 1 John 3:7; but, as usual, not the plain opposite, but something deduced from it, is stated. ΠΑ͂Σ Ὁ ΓΕΓΕΝΝΗΜΈΝΟΣ ἘΚ Τ. Θ. _Every one that_ (see...
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...
1 John 2:29 to 1 John 3:12. THE CHILDREN OF GOD AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL...
ΓΕΓΕΝΝΗΜΈΝΟΣ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΓΕΝΝΆΩ (G1080) нести; _pass._ рождаться (_см._ 1 John 2:29). ΠΟΙΕΊ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать, ΜΈΝΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΜΈΝΩ (G3306) пребывать,...
DISCOURSE: 2446 THE CHRISTIAN’S DELIVERANCE FROM SIN 1 John 3:9. _Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God_. MANY mist...
WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD, &C.— "Whoever he be that is a partaker of the divine nature by the regenerating Spirit,is no longer a doer or practiser of iniquity; for that divine principle of grace, which...
CHAPTER IX _FURTHER APPLICATION OF THE FIRST TEST_ 1 John 3:4-10 A. The Text Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. (5) And ye know that he was manifested to take...
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD - `everyone that is begotten of God.' DOTH NOT...
VERSE 9. WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD DOTH NOT COMMIT SIN. Here some have failed to catch the apostle's idea. It is not that those born of God become so far out of the reach of sin that temptation can not...
8 The title..Adversary" has far more aptness than is at first apparent. Satan is known to us only through his word He never appears otherwise than as the evil creature indicated by his titles. From hi...
3:9 Whoever (d-1) Or 'no one that has been begotten (or 'is born') of God practises.' see vers. 6,10; ch. 2.29....
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD AND THE DUTIES AND PRIVILEGES OF SONSHIP 1. The sons of God] RV 'children of God,' adding the words, 'and _such_ we are.' The word translated 'children' here is characteristi...
HOW CAN I BE SURE? 1 JOHN _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 THE CHILDREN OF GOD DO THE RIGHT THINGS (1 JOHN 3:1-10) V1 See what great love the *Father has given to us! He has called us children of God....
(3) THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE DIVINE BIRTH ON HUMAN CONDUCT (1 John 3:4). — This paragraph is an expansion of the thought of 1 John 2:3, which was the practical conclusion of the meditation on the divine...
The Reason of the Impossibility of a Child of God continuing in Sin. The germ of the divine life has been implanted in our souls, and it grows a gradual process and subject to occasional retardations,...
The Obligation of our Dignity as Children of God. “Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. And ye know that He was manifested that He might take away the sins; and sin...
THE MARKS OF GOD'S CHILDREN 1 John 3:1 This chapter opens with one of the astounding announcements of Scripture. Why God should have made _us_ His children is incomprehensible, except to show forth t...
The letter now passed to a discussion of the fellowship of the saints with God as love. The hope born of love will have as its inevitable result the purification of those possessing it. The apostle sh...
CHRISTIANS ARE OUT OF THE SINNING BUSINESS Evidently, false teachers were asserting one could live a life of sin and still be acceptable to God. John did not want Christians to be led astray, but assu...
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his (m) seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. (m) The Holy Spirit is so called by the effect he works, because by his...
Doth not commit sin. That is, as long as he keepeth in himself this seed of grace, and this divine generation, by which he is born of God. But then he may fall from this happy state by the abuse of hi...
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. (5) And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. (6) Whosoever abideth...
He says that they _sin not _who are born of God. Now, we must consider, whether God wholly regenerates us at once, or whether the remains of the old man continue in us until death. If regeneration is...
Now to say that we are born of Him is to say that we are children of God. [13] What a love is that which the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children! [14] Therefore the world know...
WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD,.... In a figurative and spiritual sense; who are regenerated, or born from above; who are quickened by the grace of God, and have Christ formed in them; who are made partaker...
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. Ver. 9. _For his seed_] The new nature, which causeth that sin cannot carry...
1 John 3:9. "Whosoever is born of God, doth not _commit sin_," _i.e._ he does not _relapse,_ or _fall away from righteousness into sin again_; ["for his seed remaineth in him,"] _i.e._ the seed of whi...
_Little_, or _beloved children, let no man deceive you_ In this important matter, by vain words, however serious and plausible they may seem to be. For a being, himself immutably holy, can never dispe...
In these verses the apostle is combating the error of those who sought to separate fellowship with God from a life of holiness; or who at least did not consider the inseparable connection of the two,...
HIS SEED; God's seed; that is, the new moral nature which he has received from God, and which is maintained in his heart by the indwelling of the Holy Ghost. HE CANNOT SIN; not for want of power, but...
This chapter continues the subject introduced in ch.2:28. Verse 29 has shown that righteousness is an absolute requirement. It is indeed a solid, sound basis for the precious bestowal of the love of t...
3-10 The sons of God know that their Lord is of purer eyes than to allow any thing unholy and impure to dwell with him. It is the hope of hypocrites, not of the sons of God, that makes allowance for...
OLBGrk; To be BORN OF GOD, is, (in the words of a very learned annotator, Dr. Hammond), "to have received some special influence from God, and by the help and power of that, to be raised to a pious li...
Shepherd of Hermas Commandment Fourth And therefore I say to you, that if any one is tempted by the devil, and sins after that great and holy calling. in which the Lord has called His people to everl...
1 John 3:9 Whoever G3956 born G1080 (G5772) of G1537 God G2316 does G4160 (G5719) not G3756 sin...
‘Whoever is begotten of God does no sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he is begotten of God.' For the plain fact is that if a man has been begotten of God, God's seed is...
1 John 3:8-9. HE THAT DOETH SIN IS OF THE DEVIL; FOR THE DEVIL SINNETH FROM THE BEGINNING. TO THIS END WAS THE SON OF GOD MANIFESTED, THAT HE MIGHT DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL. This passage is, tak...
The apostle now introduces a new order of thought, governed by the idea of regeneration as the gift of life in Christ to individual man. He first (down to chap. 1 John 3:3) dilates on its glory as a b...
DOETH NO SIN (αμαρτιαν ου ποιε). Linear present active indicative as in verse 1 John 3:4 like αμαρτανε in verse 1 John 3:8. The child of God does not have the habit of sin.HIS SEED (σπερμα αυτου)....
I have read this chapter many times in your hearing, but we cannot read it too often, for it is full of the deepest and most important instruction. God grant that fresh light from above may shine upon...
1 John 3:1. _Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God:_ Behold it, wonder at it, and never cease to admire it. Is it not one of the great...
1 John 3:1. _Behold,_ For there is no greater wonder out of heaven than this: «Behold,» 1 John 3:1. _What manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: t...
CONTENTS: God's love magnified and the believer exhorted to holiness. Brotherly love urged. How our hearts may be assured before God. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Satan, Cain, John. CONCLUSION: It is a w...
1 John 3:1. _That we should be called the sons of God!_ The character of the favoured race is defined in the preseding verses: they keep the commandments of God: 1 John 3:3. They abide in Christ by wo...
DOES NOT CONTINUE TO SIN. Again the _present continuous._ See note on 1 John 3:6. BECAUSE GOD'S VERY NATURE. _MacKnight_ thinks this is true of the _word_ that lives in us (1 Peter 1:23). It is also t...
_Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God _ THE USURPER DEPOSED AND THE CONQUEROR VANQUISHED I. The important doctrin...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 3:9 BORN OF GOD. See John 3:3. GOD’S SEED. Some take this to be the Word of God that causes new birth (compare...
CHAPTER 3 VER. 1. _Behold what great love the Father hath bestowed on us_ (unworthy, enemies and sinners as we are), _that we should be called, and be the sons of God._ Love, actively, His wondrous lo...
_And he cannot sin, because he is born of God._ Hence Jovinian, Luther, and Calvin taught that a man could not fall away, but was sure of his salvation. But S. John says, " _My little children, these...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 3:7. LITTLE CHILDREN.—τεκνία; not infants, but young and immature disciples. DOETH RIGHTEOUSNESS.—Emphasis lies on “doeth”; habitually does. Doing is opposed to...
EXPOSITION 1 JOHN 3:1 TO 1 JOHN 5:12 3. SECOND MAIN DIVISION. _God is Love._ 1 JOHN 3:1
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God (1 John 3:1): I love that verse. Behold, what manner of love God has bestowed upon you, that you sh...
1 John 2:29; 1 John 4:7; 1 John 5:1; 1 John 5:18; 1 John 5:4;...
Whosoever is born [π α ς ο γ ε γ ε ν ν η μ ε ν ο ς]. On the form of expression, see on ver. 4. Rev., begotten. The perfect participle indicates a condition remaining from the first : he who hath been...
CHILDREN OF GOD 1 John 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS What a wonderful truth is this: "Now are we the sons of God." What! We who were once children of darkness, are now the children of light; we who were c...
Whosoever is born of God — By living faith, whereby God is continually breathing spiritual life into his soul, and his soul is continually breathing out love and prayer to God, doth not commit sin. Fo...
Doesn’t John contradict himself when he asserts that Christians are without sin? PROBLEM: John affirms here that “Whoever has been born of God does not sin.” But in the first chapter he insisted that...
Observe here, 1. The character of. true Christian, HE IS BORN OF GOD; he has in the work of regeneration passed under. blessed change by the operation of the Holy Spirit, renewing his nature, and refo...