Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
1 John 4:19
His is the fountain love, ours but the stream: his love the inducement, the pattern, and the effective cause of ours. He that is first in love, loves freely; the other therefore loves under obligation.
His is the fountain love, ours but the stream: his love the inducement, the pattern, and the effective cause of ours. He that is first in love, loves freely; the other therefore loves under obligation.
1 JOHN 4:19 avgapw/men {A} The reading that best explains the origin of the others is avgapw/men, which is adequately supported by A B 5 322 323 424c 945 1241 1739 1881 itr vid vg _al_. Feeling the n...
Verse 19. _WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US._] This is the foundation of our love to God. 1. We love him because we find he has loved us. 2. We love him from a sense of obligation and gratitude....
WE LOVE HIM, BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US - This passage is susceptible of two explanations; either. (1)That the fact that he first loved us is the “ground” or “reason” why we love him, or. (2)That as...
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...
HIM. The texts omit....
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...
_We love him_ Omit -Him", which is a later addition to the true text: some authorities for -Him" add -God", and some have -God" for -He" in the next clause. No accusative is expressed, and none, wheth...
7–21. LOVE IS THE MARK OF THE CHILDREN OF THE GOD WHO IS LOVE...
19. After ἡμεῖς [738], Peschito, and Vulgate insert οὖν. After ἀγαπῶμεν omit αὐτόν with [739][740] against [741][742]. For αὐτόν [743] has τὸν Θεόν. For αὐτός ([744][745][746][747], Thebaic) [748] and...
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...
ΆΓΑΠΏΜΕΝ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΆΓΑΠΆΩ (G25) любить. Увещевательный _conj._, "давайте любить" ΠΡΏΤΟΣ (G4413) первый, ΉΓΆΠΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΓΑΠΆΩ (G25) любить. _Aor._ может обозначать специфи...
DISCOURSE: 2461 GOD’S LOVE THE SOURCE OF OURS 1 John 4:19. _We lore Him, because He first loved us_. THERE is, as there ought to be, a great and visible difference between the Lord’s people and other...
WE LOVE HIM, &C.— Some would read this, _Let us therefore love him:_ and their reasons for it are, because the connection is by this interpretation rendered more easyand obvious; and the word αγαπωμεν...
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...
We love him, because he first loved us. HIM. Omitted in A B: 'Aleph (') has 'God.' 'We (emphatic, on our part) love (in general, Him, the brethren, and our fellowmen), because He (emphatic: answeri...
VERSE 19. WE LOVE HIM, BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US. Love begets love. God's wonderful love, exhibited through Christ, fills every redeemed soul with love, and we show our love and gratitude to God by l...
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...
WE LOVE HIM] RV 'we love.' Possibly the verb should be rendered 'let us love.'...
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...
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...
ἀγαπῶμεν has no accus. The thought is that the amazing love of God in Christ is the inspiration of all the love that stirs in our hearts. It awakens within us an answering love a grateful love for Him...
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...
MATURE LOVE GIVES ONE BOLDNESS IN JUDGMENT When the love of God becomes mature in His children, like the ripening of fruit, they can face the judgment with boldness. Such boldness arises from the fact...
(14) We love him, because he first loved us. (14) Lest any man should think that that peace of conscience proceeds from our love as the cause, he goes back to the fountain, that is, to the free love...
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 AND FEAR_ ‘Perfect love casteth out fear.’ 1 John 4:18 This principle, that ‘perfect love casteth out fear,’ is a universal principle, and belongs to all human things. It is shown most comple...
_GOD’S LOVE AND MAN’S RESPONSE_ ‘We love Him, because He first loved us.’ 1 John 4:19 God’s love and man’s response—that is the meaning of our life as Christians. And it is God’s love, the kindness...
19_We love him _The verb ἀγαπῶμεν may be either in the indicative or imperative mood; but the former is the more suitable here, for the Apostle, as I think, repeats the preceding sentence, that as God...
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...
WE LOVE HIM, BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US. Lest love to God, and so to one another, should be thought to be of ourselves, and too much be ascribed unto it, the apostle observes, that God's love to us is...
We love him, because he first loved us. Ver. 19. _Because he first loved us_] _See Trapp on "_ 1Jn 4:10 _"_ Mary answers not Rabboni till Christ first said unto her, Mary. Our love is but the reflex...
_There is no fear in love_ No slavish or tormenting fear, diffidence, or distrust, can be where love reigns; _but perfect_, mature _love casteth out_ such _fear, because_ such _fear hath torment_ And...
BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US; his love to us opened the way for and was the procuring cause of our love to him. The gift of the Saviour and the way of life which he has opened, the gift of the Holy Spiri...
WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US....
Perfection in brotherly love:...
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...
1 John 4:19 We G2249 love G25 (G5719) (G5725) Him G846 because G3754 He G846 first G4413 loved...
‘We love, because he first loved us.' ‘We'. That is, we who are His, who have come to believe in Jesus Christ as our Saviour and Lord, who come together with His people that we might learn more of Him...
1 John 4:19. WE LOVE BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US. Looking back, this sublimely shows the possibility that our love here once more absolute or without object, our ‘perfect love' may become supreme: the a...
1 John 4:17-19. Here enters the second point of 1 John 4:12: ‘His love is perfected in us.' The ‘His' is omitted; HEREIN IS LOVE MADE PERFECT WITH US, that is, in all that concerns our estate. Love is...
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...
HE FIRST (αυτος πρωτος). Note πρωτος (nominative), not πρωτον, as in John 20:4; John 20:8. God loved usBEFORE we loved him (John 3:16). Our love is in response to his love for us. Αγαπωμεν is indi...
1 John 4:19 Originating Love. The love of all who love God is a consequence of God's love to them. I. By an act of creative power. All love in the heart is a creation; and whom God loves, in them He...
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, 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._ It was so in John's day: it is so in these days....
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...
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...
BECAUSE GOD. God's unique love for us in Christ, fills us with love for Him and for our fellowman!...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 4:19 WE LOVE BECAUSE. God’s love was demonstrated in the cross (see Romans 5:8). God loves humanity first, and the love Christians show is a response to that l
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 4:10; 2 Corinthians 5:14; 2 Corinthians 5:15; Ephesians 2:3;...
We love Him [η μ ε ι ς α γ α π ω μ ε ν α υ τ ο ν]. The best texts omit Him. Some render let us love, as ver. 7. The statement is general, relating to the entire operation of the principle of love. All...
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...
We love him, because he first loved us — This is the sum of all religion, the genuine model of Christianity. None can say more: why should any one say less, or less intelligibly?...
There is. double reading of these words according to the original. 1. They may be read, let us love him because he first loved us, by way of motive, denoting, that believers have great reason to love...