Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 John 4:15
Whosoever shall, from a principle of loving faith, openly confess in the face of all opposition and danger, that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him.
Whosoever shall, from a principle of loving faith, openly confess in the face of all opposition and danger, that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him.
Verse 15. _WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS_] Much stress is laid on this confession, because the false teachers denied the reality of the incarnation; but this confession implied also such a belief in Christ...
WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD - In the true sense, and from the heart. This will always prove that a man is a Christian. But the passage cannot mean that if he merely says so in...
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...
CONFESS, &C. See Matthew 16:16. JESUS. App-98....
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...
_Whosoever shall confess_ This was what the false prophets refused to do: see on 1 John 4:2: also on 1 John 5:1. _dwelleth in him_ Better, ABIDETH _in him_: see on 1 John 2:24. _and he in God_ The co...
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...
15. After Ἰησοῦς [732] inserts Χριστός. [732] 4th century. Brought to Rome about 1460. It is entered in the earliest catalogue of the Vatican Library, 1475. All three Epistles. 15. ὋΣ ἊΝ ὉΜΟΛ. _Quicu...
ΌΜΟΛΟΓΉΣΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΌΜΟΛΟΓΈΩ (G3670) исповедовать. _Conj._ с ΈΆΝ (G1437) выражает условие, _aor._ обозначает специфическое действие....
WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS— See on 1 John 4:2. The confession here required must have been sincere, otherwise it would have been of no moment. Confessing Jesus to be the Son of God, or the Messiah, impli...
CHAPTER XIII _FAITHTHE GROUND OF LOVE_ 1 John 4:13-16 A. _The Text_ Hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. (14) And we have beheld and bear witne...
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. SHALL CONFESS - once for all (aorist). THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD - and therefore "the Saviour of the...
VERSE 15. WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS, This is largely a repetition of verse 2; the only difference being that in verse 2, one coming and confessing that Jesus Christ had come in the flesh would be proof...
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...
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...
ὁμολογήσῃ, aor. of a definite confession born of persuasion. Such a conviction implies fellowship with God....
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...
Whosoever shall (h) confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. (h) With such a confession as comes from true faith, and is accompanied with love, so that there is an ag...
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...
15_Whosoever shall confess _He repeats the truth, that we are united to God by Christ, and that we cannot be connected with Christ except, God abides in us. _Faith _and _confession _are used indiscrim...
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...
WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD,.... The only begotten of the Father; that he is not a mere man, as the Jews, and Ebion and Cerinthus said, but a divine person, equal with the Fat...
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. Ver. 15. _Whosoever shall confess_] _See Trapp on "_ 1Co 12:3 _"_...
_Whosoever shall_ From a principle of loving faith, openly _confess_ In the face of all opposition and danger, maintaining this profession with resolution and zeal, and acting in conformity to it; _th...
CONFESS THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD; truly, sincerely, heartily; receiving him as the Son of God....
Dwelling in God and in His love:...
WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, GOD DWELLETH IN HIM AND HE IN GOD__...
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...
This discourse is most studiously and observably interwoven, of these two great things, mentioned 1 JOHN 3:23, faith in the Messiah, and the love of one another, as being the principal antidotes again...
Tertullian Against Praxeas But "whosoever shall confess that (Jesus) Christ is the Son of God" (not the Father), "God dwelleth in him, and he in God. "[436] Epitome of the Divine Institutes by Lacta...
1 John 4:15 Whoever G3739 G302 confesses G3670 (G5661) that G3754 Jesus G2424 is G2076 (G5748) Son...
‘Whoever will confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.' God's salvation is only effective through His Son. Each one who truly confesses Jesus as God's Son, and as the Sa...
1 John 4:13-16. Remembering that this whole section has to do with faith in Jesus as the root of brotherly love, we need not be surprised that the apostle goes back to the introductory words of it. Th...
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...
WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS (ος εαν ομολογηση). Indefinite relative clause with modal εαν (=an) and the first aorist active subjunctive, "whoever confesses." See 1 John 2:23; 1 John 4:2 for ομολογεω.TH...
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...
WHOEVER DECLARES. Compare 1 John 4:2. Such faith implies fellowship with God! Compare 1 Timothy 6:12; Matthew 16:16; Romans 10:9-10. "God liv
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 4:15 JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD. He is unique. He is divine and shares every attribute of God (see note on John 1:14). In 1 John
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...
_Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God_, &c. He here maintains the Divinity of Christ because Ebion, Cerinthus, and many others at that time impugned it. This is as it were a conclusion...
_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 3:24; 1 John 4:12; 1 John 4:2; 1 John 5:1; 1 John 5:5;...
Whosoever [ο ς ε α ν]. Lit., who if there be any. Shall confess. See on 1 9. Son of God. See on 1 7....
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...