Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
1 John 5:9
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness of God which He hath testified of His Son.
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness of God which He hath testified of His Son.
Verse 9. _IF WE RECEIVE THE WITNESS OF MEN_] Which all are obliged to do, and which is deemed a sufficient testimony to truth in numberless cases; _the witness of God is greater_-he can neither be dec...
IF WE RECEIVE THE WITNESS OF MEN - As we are accustomed to do, and as we must do in courts of justice, and in the ordinary daily transactions of life. We are constantly acting on the belief that what...
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...
Reference to the faith held by the Church concerning Christ leads John to specify in symbolic terms what that faith was and the witness by which it was sustained. The truth belongs to the sphere of re...
If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne testimony about his Son. He who believes in the Son of God has that testimony wit...
LOVE WITHIN THE DIVINE FAMILY (1 John 5:1-2)...
IF. App-118. WITNESS. Greek. _marturia._ See p. 1511. MEN. App-123. TESTIFIED. Same as "bear witness", 1 John 5:6. OF. concerning. App-104....
_If we receive the witness of men_ And it is notorious that we do so: comp. -if God so loved us" (1 John 4:11), and see on 2 John 1:10. The argument reads like an echo of that of Christ to the Pharise...
S. John's characteristic repetition of the word -witness" is greatly weakened in A. V. by the substitution of -testify" in 1 John 5:9 and -record" in 1 John 5:10: see on 1 John 1:2;...
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). 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...
9. For ἥν ([778][779]) read ὍΤΙ with [780][781][782] and most Versions. [778] 9th century. All three Epistles. [779] 9th century. All three Epistles. [780] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 18...
9–11. S. John’s characteristic repetition of the word ‘witness’ is greatly weakened in A.V. by the substitution of ‘testify’ in 1 John 5:9, and ‘record’ in 1 John 5:10-11 : see on 1 John 1:2;...
ΛΑΜΒΆΝΟΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G2983) принимать, ΜΕΊΖΩΝ (G3187) _сотр. от_ ΜΈΓΑΣ больше (_см._ 1 John 3:20). В John 5:36 это слово обозначает большую веру; в этом стихе оно указывает на си...
IF WE RECEIVE THE WITNESS OF MEN, &C.— "Now if, according to what is written in the law of God, we readily admit of, and depend upon, the testimony of two or three credible witnesses among men (Deuter...
CHAPTER XV _FAITHTHE POWER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS_ 1 John 5:4-12 A. _The Text_ For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our fait...
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. IF ... We do accept (and rightly) the witness of veracious men, f...
VERSE 9.-1F WE RECEIVE THE WITNESS OF MEN. As reasonable creatures we receive, trust and fully rely upon our fellowmen. This, for a distinction, we call human testimony. Now, if this kind of testimony...
6 It is a remarkable fact that the word _ testify _ is used concerning the Lord's baptism in water (Joh_1:34), and concerning His crucifixion (Joh_19:35), and here again of the spirit (6). This is con...
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 fa...
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_ ...
CHAPTER 17 THE WITNESS OF MEN (APPLIED TO THE RESURRECTION) 1 John 5:9 AT an early period in the Christian Church the passage in which these words occur was selected as a fitting Epistle for the Fir...
CHAPTER 16 THE GOSPEL AS A GOSPEL OF WITNESS; THE THREE WITNESSES 1 John 5:6 IT has been said that Apostles and apostolic men were as far as possible removed from common sense, and have no conceptio...
Our attitude to the Threefold Testimony. “If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God what He hath testified concerning His Son. He that b...
According to the Jewish law threefold testimony was valid (Deuteronomy 19:15; _cf._ Matthew 18:16; John 8:17-18). Read (as in 1 John 3:20)
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...
WITNESSES TO JESUS' SONSHIP The Gnostics taught that Jesus was a man, and Christ, the Deity, came upon Him at baptism and left Him before the crucifixion. John says Jesus was the same both in the wate...
(10) If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for (k) this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. (10) He shows by an argument of comparison, of what great...
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. (9) If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is...
9_If we receive the witness_, or _testimony_, _of men _He proves, reasoning from the less to the greater, how ungrateful men are when they reject Christ, who has been approved, as he has related, by G...
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...
IF WE RECEIVE THE WITNESS OF MEN,.... The witness of a sufficient number of credible men, of men of good character and report, is always admitted in any case, and in any court of judicature; it was al...
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. Ver. 9. _If we receive, &c._] If two or three witnesses establish a...
_If we receive the testimony of men_ As we do continually, and must do, in a thousand instances, if we would not give over all business, and even refuse taking necessary nourishment. The testimony of...
GREATER; more certainly true and worthy of belief. THIS; the testimony above referred to....
“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...
9-12 Nothing can be more absurd than the conduct of those who doubt as to the truth of Christianity, while in the common affairs of life they do not hesitate to proceed on human testimony, and would...
A testimony above exception, being wholly Divine, as he himself argued, 1 THESSALONIANS 5:36,37 1 THESSALONIANS 8:13,14,17,18....
1 John 5:9 If G1487 receive G2983 (G5719) witness G3141 men G444 witness G3141 God G2316 is G2076 ...
THROUGH THE COMING OF JESUS GOD'S SON, WHICH WAS WELL TESTIFIED TO, WE CAN KNOW THAT WE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE (1 JOHN 5:6). ‘This is he who came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ, not with the water o...
1 John 5:9. IF WE RECEIVE THE WITNESS OF MEN, THE WITNESS OF GOD IS GREATER: FOR THIS IS THE WITNESS OF GOD, THAT HE HATH BORNE WITNESS CONCERNING HIS SON. The ‘three witnesses' suggested the perfecti...
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...
IF WE RECEIVE (ε λαμβανομεν). Condition of first class with ε and the present active indicative, assumed as true. The conditions for a legally valid witness are laid down in Deuteronomy 19:15 (cf. M...
1 John 5:6 The Witness of Christ. "Witness!" The word in its emphatic recurrence is typical of the situation out of which the Epistle springs. The special perils and anxieties with which the Church i...
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...
1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God._ Take comfort, believer, from that declaration. You have accepted Jesus as the Christ the anointed of God, so the apostle aff...
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 agai...
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...
WE BELIEVE. "If we are willing to believe the witness men give to establish the truth, how much more should we believe the witness that God gives about his Son!!!" THAT GOD HAS GIVEN. God's witness is...
_This is the witness of God, which He hath testified of His Son _ FAITH, AND THE WITNESS UPON WHICH IT IS FOUNDED Faith stands, under the covenant of grace, in a leading position amongst the works o...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:9 THE TESTIMONY OF GOD. John claims divine authority for his teaching. ⇐...
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...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 5:9. RECEIVE.—λαμβάνομεν; admit as valid. The testimony of two human witnesses is admitted; here is the threefold testimony of God—the voice at baptism, the acc...
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 invol...
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...
1 John 5:10; Acts 17:31; Acts 5:32; Hebrews 2:4; Hebrews 6:18;...
If we receive [ε ι λ α μ β α ν ο μ ε ν]. The indicative mood, assuming such reception as a fact. If we receive, as we do. On the verb receive, see on John 3:32. The witness of God is greater. Supply...
SALVATION MADE SURE 1 John 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Taking stock is a very important thing with the business man. Laying a good foundation is a very important task with the builder, Feeling the. pulse...
If we receive the testimony of men — As we do continually, and must do in a thousand instances. The testimony of God is greater — Of higher authority, and much more worthy to be received; namely, this...
Our apostles's argument in these words is taken from the less to the greater, thus: "If, says he, for the believing of any thing it be ordinarily thought sufficient to have the testimony of two or thr...