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1 John 4:12
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth, in us, and His love is perfected in us.
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth, in us, and His love is perfected in us.
Verse 12. _NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME._] The very words, with the change of εωρακε for τεθεαται, of this apostle in his gospel, John 1:18. We may _feel_ him, though we cannot _see_ him; and if w...
NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME - See the notes at John 1:18, where the same declaration occurs. The statement seems to be made here in order to introduce a remark to show in what way we may know tha...
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 error...
John returns to the theme of 1 John 3:14 ff., be cause if the Church is the home of truth, still more is it the home of love. The evidence for our Divine sonship is that the love manifested by God in...
Beloved, let us love one another, because love has its source in God, and everyone who loves has God as the source of his birth and knows God. He who does not love has not come to know God. In this Go...
THE PERILS OF THE SURGING LIFE OF THE SPIRIT (1 John 3:24 B- 1 John 4:1) _ 4:1 This is how we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he gave to us. Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but t...
NO MAN. No one. Greek. _oudeis._ SEEN. beheld. App-133. DWELLETH. Greek. _meno_. See p. 1511. PERFECTED. made perfect. App-125....
Love is the Mark of the Children of the God who is Love 7. _Beloved, let us love one another_ See on 1 John 3:2. The transition seems abrupt, as if the Apostle had summarily dismissed an unwelcome sub...
_No man hath seen God at any time_ Better, as R. V., _No man hath_ BEHELD _God at any time_: a different verb (τεθέαται) is used here from that used in 1 John 4:20 and in John 1:18 (ἑώρακαν) where we...
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...
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...
7–21. LOVE IS THE MARK OF THE CHILDREN OF THE GOD WHO IS LOVE...
12. ΘΕῸΝ ΟΥ̓ΔΕῚΣ ΠΏΠΟΤΕ ΤΕΘΈΑΤΑΙ. As R.V., _No man hath_ BEHELD _God at any time_, to mark the shade of difference between this and Θεὸν οὐδεὶς ἙΏΡΑΚΕΝ πώποτε (John 1:18). Here gazing and contemplatio...
ΠΏΠΟΤΕ (G4454) в любое время, когда бы ни. ΤΕΘΈΑΤΑΙ _perf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΘΕΆΟΜΑΙ (G2300) видеть, замечать (_см._ 1 John 1:1). Имеется в виду постоянное созерцание, которое соответствует вечном...
NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD, &C.— "God himself is an invisible Spirit, whom no man hath seen nor can see with his bodily eyes. But as he is the great Fountain of benevolence, _if we love one another_ with co...
HEREBY WE KNOW PART IV 1 John 4:7-21; 1 John 5:1-21 GOD IS LOVE Divine Sonship Tested By The Inter-Relationship Of: 1. Love 2. Faith 3. Righteousness CHAPTER XII _THE SOURCE OF LOVE_...
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. God, whom no man hath seen at any time, appoints His children the visible recipients of...
VERSE 12. NO MAN BATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME. By our mortal eyes we can not see God. He has not been so seen by any one at any time. He is invisible. We, however, may have a sense of his presence in us...
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...
4:12 us. (d-24) _ En_ , 'of which we are the objects;' but it is more than 'towards.'...
HATH SEEN GOD] RV 'hath beheld God.' HIS LOVE] i.e. our love to Him. If we love one another we have proof both of His presence with us and of our love to Him....
FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD IN LOVE 1. Try the spirits] RV 'Prove the spirits.' The verb is used of testing metals. 2, 3. See on 2 John 1:7....
HOW CAN I BE SURE? 1 JOHN _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 4 TEST THE *SPIRITS TO SEE IF THEY ARE TRUE (1 JOHN 4:1-6) V1 My friends, do not believe every *spirit. First, make sure where they are from. Se...
The false teachers said that they had seen God. They said that they had special knowledge about God. This cannot be true, because no person has ever seen God. What they said was false. John tells us...
THE PERFECT LOVE THE SUREST TEST (1 John 4:7). (_a_) _Fraternal love the necessary product of the true knowledge of God, because God is love_ (1 John 4:7). (_b_) _The grand recent historical exhibi...
The Blessedness of Love. “Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God, and every one that loveth of God hath been begotten and is getting to know God. He that loveth not did not get to kn...
“God no one hath ever yet beheld Him”. By and by “we shall see Him even as He is” (1 John 3:2), but even now, if we love, we are no strangers to Him: He abides and works in us. τετελειωμένη, “carried...
THE TEST OF OUR LOVE 1 John 4:12 If we are willing to be channels through which God's love flows to others, there need be no limit to the fullness of that holy current. In humility, selflessness, an...
Two closely related perils threaten our fellowship with God as love, false prophets and the spirit which actuates them. Teaching is to be tested by the indwelling Spirit. All who refuse to confess tha...
LOVE, A MEANS OF SEEING GOD No man has ever seen God in the fullness of His nature (John 1:18). However, Jesus came to declare the nature of God to man. While man has not seen God in all His glory, wh...
(10) No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is (g) perfected in us. (10) A third reason: Because God is invisible, therefore by this effect of his...
_No man hath seen God at any time. No mortal man hath seen God and the perfections of his divine Majesty in such a manner as the blessed in heaven, but we have powerful motives to love and serve him,...
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. (8) He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. (9) In this was manifested the...
12_No man hath seen God _The same words are found in John 1:18 of John’s Gospel; but John the Baptist had not there exactly the same thing in view, for he meant only that God could not be otherwise kn...
Now, to make use of this last proof, caution was required, for many false prophets would assume, and even in the time of the apostle had already assumed, the semblance of having received communication...
NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME,.... The same is said by the Evangelist John, John 1:18; but here it is observed with a different view, and upon another account; there it signifies that no man has se...
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. Ver. 12. _No man hath seen God_] If we read that any hath seen him, we must understand i...
_Herein is love_ Worthy of our highest admiration; _not that we loved God_ First; for we were, on the contrary, in a state of enmity to him, in which, if we had remained unsolicited and untouched by h...
IS PERFECTED; by producing in us its proper fruits, and is thus shown to be genuine, complete....
But there must be guards as to the operation of the Spirit of God, that is, the child of God must be guarded against all that would imitate the operation of the Spirit. Satan is extremely cunning, and...
7-13 The Spirit of God is the Spirit of love. He that does not love the image of God in his people, has no saving knowledge of God. For it is God's nature to be kind, and to give happiness. The law o...
The essence of God is to our eyes invisible, incomprehensible to our minds; but by yielding ourselves to the power of his love, so as to be transformed by it, and habituated to the exercise of mutual...
Tertullian Against Praxeas "And we have seen His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father; "[179] A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity If God cannot be seen, how was God seen?...
1 John 4:12 one G3762 seen G2300 (G5766) God G2316 time G4455 If G1437 love G25 (G5725) another...
‘No man has beheld God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit,...
1 John 4:12. This verse contains three clauses, which are severally dilated on, though in a rather different order, in the seven verses which follow: the invisibility of God as the object of love; His...
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...
NO ONE HATH BEHELD GOD AT ANY TIME (θεον ουδεις πωποτε τεθεατα). Perfect middle indicative of θεαομα (John 1:14). Almost the very words of John 1:18 θεον ουδεις πωποτε εωρακεν (instead of τεθεατα)....
PERFECTED (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 5:48). _...
1 John 4:9. _In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him._ There is love in our creation; there is lov...
1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit,_ A simpleton believes every word that he hears, but «the wise man's eyes are in his head,» so he examines what he sees and hears, and does not blindly...
1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world._ It was so in John's day: it is so in these days....
1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirit whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world._ This is an unction of which there is great need i...
1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world._ If John had need to say that in the early mornin...
CONTENTS: Christians warned of false doctrines concerning Christ's person and work. Tests of the true. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, anti-christ, John. CONCLUSION: God's people must be ever c...
1 John 4:1. _Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God._ Whether those teachers believe that Christ is come in the flesh, which to the present hour the unbelieving jews den...
NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN GOD. John 1:18. "Some may claim to have seen God in a vision or to have heard Him speak to them. But in fact, no one has ever seen God! But Jesus, the Son, has told us about Him....
1 JOHN 4:7 The Assurance of God through the Love of God. John’s teaching in these verses is like the apostle Paul’s “love chapter,” 1 Corinthians 13:1.1 JOHN—NOTE ON
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 4:12 NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN GOD. See note on John 1:18. ⇐...
Would someone please check the Psalm number in sentence formatted in blue in the 3rd note of ver. 18. CHAPTER 4 1. _Most dearly beloved_, &c. By the word _spirit_ he means suggestion, inspiration, im...
_No man hath seen God at any time._ Why does S. John here introduce these words? It is because these words partly give the reason why from the antecedent, _if God so loved us_ the inference is drawn _...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 4:7.—The previous verses are in some sense an “aside.” The apostle now resumes his proper theme. His main truth is this—Love is the mark of the children of God,...
EXPOSITION 1 JOHN 4:1 - 1 JOHN 5:12 (2) _The source of son-ship. _Possession of the Spirit. 1 JOHN 4:1 Confession of the Incarnation is
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to I John chapter 4. As we go back to verse 1 John 4:24 of chapter 3, the later portion, "Hereby we know that He abides in us by the Spirit which He has given us." I kn...
1 Corinthians 13:13; 1 John 2:5; 1 John 3:24; 1 John 4:17; 1 John 4:18
God. Beginning the sentence emphatically, and without the article : God as God. "God hath no man ever yet seen." Compare John 1:18. His love. Not our love to Him, nor His love to us, but the love whi...
TESTING THE TRUE AND THE FALSE 1 John 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have in our opening verses some important admonitions, and also some important instructions. 1. IMPORTANT ADMONITIONS. (1) "Believe...
THE LOVE OF GOD CHAPTER 1 John 4:7 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have always thought of the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians as the Love Chapter. However, we have in the Word of God another chapter whic...
If we love one another, God abideth in us — This is treated of, 1 John 4:13. And his love is perfected — Has its full effect. In us — This is treated of, 1 John 4:17....