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1 John 4:20
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can be love God whom he hath not seen?
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can be love God whom he hath not seen?
1 JOHN 4:20 ouv du,natai avgapa/n) {A} Instead of the negative ouv, which is strongly supported by the Alexandrian text as well as by other witnesses (a B Y 1739 syrh copsa Cyprian Lucifer), the Text...
Verse 20. _IF A MAN SAY, I LOVE GOD, AND HATETH HIS BROTHER_] This, as well as many other parts of this epistle, seems levelled against the Jews, who pretended much love to God while they hated the _...
IF A MAN SAY, I LOVE GOD, AND HATETH HIS BROTHER - His Christian brother; or, in a larger sense, any man. The sense is, that no man, whatever may be his professions and pretensions, can have any true...
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...
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...
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...
A MAN. any one. App-123. SEEN. App-133....
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...
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...
_If a man say_ We return to the form of statement which was so common at the beginning of the Epistle (1 John 1:6; 1 John 1:8; 1 John 1:10). The case here contemplated is one form of the man that fear...
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...
20. For πῶς δύναται ([749][750][751], Peschito, Vulgate) read οὐ δύναται ([752][753], Thebaic). [749] 5th century. Brought by Cyril Lucar, Patriarch of Constantinople, from Alexandria, and afterwards...
ΕΊΊΠΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить. _Conj._ с ΈΆΝ (G1437) используется в _conj._ 3 типа, рассматривающем условие как возможное, ΆΓΑΠΏ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΆΓΑΠΆΩ (G25) любить, ΜΙΣΉ _p...
FOR HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS BROTHER, &C.— By _brother_ is all along to be understood a real Christian; and if Christian professors are what their religion obliges them to be, that is, more holy than ot...
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...
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? LOVETH NOT HIS BROTHER WHOM HE HATH SE...
VERSE 20. IF A MAN SAY, I LOVE GOD. How can any one say he loves the unseen One, and yet hates his brother, whom he sees and knows. Such a claim is mere pretense. The one so claiming, the apostle says...
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...
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 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...
Lest the vagueness of the objectless ἀγαπῶμεν encourage false security, St. John reiterates the old test: Love for the invisible Father is manifested in love for the brother by our side, the image of...
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...
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...
LOVING THE BRETHREN Generally speaking, it is easier to love that which is near and seen than that which is far away and unseen. Earlier, John had said, "No one has seen God at any time (verse 12). It...
(15) If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: (16) for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? (15) As he showed that the lo...
He that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God, whom he seeth not? By this is signified, that it is more easy and natural to love the things that we see, and that enter by the sens...
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...
_LOVE TO MEN_ ‘He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God Whom he hath not seen?’ 1 John 4:20 We cannot love Him Whom we do not realise, and to realise the great invisibl...
But this love cannot exist, except it generates brotherly love. Hence he says, that they are liars who boast that they love God, when they hate their brethren. But the reason he subjoins seems not suf...
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...
IF A MAN SAY I LOVE GOD, AND HATETH HIS BROTHER,.... Than which profession nothing can be more contradictory, not black and white, or hot and cold in the same degree: HE IS A LIAR; it is not truth he...
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? Ver. 20. _If a man say, I love God_] I...
_If any man say, I love God_ And even say it with the utmost confidence; _and hateth his brother_ Which he will do more or less, if he do not love him; _he is a liar_ He affirms what is false, althoug...
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...
14-21 The Father sent the Son, he willed his coming into this world. The apostle attests this. And whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. This confe...
The greater difficulty here is implied, through our present dependence upon sense, of loving the invisible God, than men that we daily see and converse familiarly with. Hence, considering the comprehe...
Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews Also in the same place: "If any one shall say that he loves God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he who loveth not his brothe...
1 John 4:20 If G1437 someone G5100 says G2036 (G5632) G3754 love G25 (G5719) God G2316 and...
‘If a man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar, for he who loves not his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.' The result is that we will love all who are tr...
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...
1 John 4:20. IF A MAN SAY, I LOVE GOD, AND HATETH HIS BROTHER, HE IS A LIAR. All the words here point, as we have seen before, to an utterly spurious Christianity, which knows nothing of the revelatio...
IF A MAN SAY (εαν τις ειπη). Condition of third class with εαν and second aorist active subjunctive. Suppose one say. Cf. 1 John 1:6.I LOVE GOD (Αγαπω τον θεον). Quoting an imaginary disputant as...
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....
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...
BUT HATES HIS BROTHER. "Hating his brother shows he was a liar when he said, I love God!'" Some thought it proper to show their love for God by hating and persecuting all who did not share their views...
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
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...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 4:15. SON OF GOD.—St. John was jealous of the double truth of the person of Jesus—His Divinity and His humanity. 1 John 4:17. MADE PERFECT.—Or reaches its purpo...
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 John 2:4; 1 John 3:17; 1 John 4:12...
He that loveth not his brother, etc. Note the striking inversion of the clauses : He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, God whom he hath not seen cannot love. How. The best tests omit, an...
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...
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...
Whom he hath seen — Who is daily presented to his senses, to raise his esteem, and move his kindness or compassion toward him....
Our apostle in these words prevents an objection. Some might be ready to say, "Who is it that doth not love God? is there any that live who doth not love him?" The apostle replies, That whosoever says...