Verse 21. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not.
But if our conscience does not condemn us that is, does not accuse us of being deficient in love to our needy brethren we have a conscience void of offense toward God, and we are assured that he will hear us, for he knows that we have not failed in duty.
1 JOHN 3:21 h` kardi,a @h`mw/n# mh. kataginw,skh| {C} In the following tabular arrangement the eleven different readings are subsumed under four principal readings: (1) h` kardi,a...
Verse 21. _IF OUR HEART CONDEMN US NOT_] If we be _conscious_ to ourselves of our own sincerity, that we practise not deceit, and use no mask, then have _we confidence toward God_-we can appeal to him...
BELOVED, IF OUR HEART CONDEMN US NOT - If we so live as to have an approving conscience - that is, if we indulge in no secret sin; if we discharge faithfully every known duty; if we submit without com...
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...
The hatred of the world is to be expected, but within the Christian brotherhood there must be love, manifesting itself in deeds of self-sacrifice in imitation of Christ's love. If we possess this spir...
REMEMBER THE PRIVILEGES OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (1 John 3:1-2)...
a By this we know that we are of the truth, and by this we will reassure our heart before him, when our heart condemns us in anything, for God is greater than our hearts and knows all things. Beloved,...
CONFIDENCE. See 1 John 2:28. TOWARD. App-104....
Love and Hate: Life and Death _Marvel not, my brethren_ Comp. John 5:28; John 3:7. The antagonism between the light and the darkness, between God and the evil one, between righteousness and unrighteou...
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...
_Beloved_ See on 1 John 3:2. _if our heart condemn us not_ An argument _à fortiori_: if before God we can persuade conscience to acquit us, when it upbraids us, much more may we have assurance before...
21. With [674][675] omit ἡμῶν after ΚΑΡΔΊΑ. [676][677] omit ἩΜΩ͂Ν after ΚΑΤΑΓΙΝΏΣΚΗΙ. [674] 5th century. Brought by Cyril Lucar, Patriarch of Constantinople, from Alexandria, and afterwards presented...
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...
13–24. LOVE AND HATE: LIFE AND DEATH ΜῊ ΘΑΥΜΆΖΕΤΕ. Comp. John 5:28, and contrast 1 John 3:7. The antagonism between the light and the darkness, between God and the evil one, between righteousness and...
ΚΑΤΑΓΙΝΏΣΚΗ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΚΑΤΑΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G2607) осуждать, ΠΑΡΡΗΣΊΑ (G3954) открытость, доверие, уверенность (_см._ 1 John 2:28). ΈΧΟΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь....
DISCOURSE: 2450 A GOOD AND EVIL CONSCIENCE 1 John 3:20. _If our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence...
BELOVED, IF OUR HEART CONDEMN US NOT,— Though the expression is negative in the text, it must imply somewhat positive; namely, that conscience should upon examination acquit us. St. John is speaking h...
CHAPTER X _DIVINE SONSHIP PROVEN BY ACTIVE LOVE_ (The Second Test. The Second Time) 1 John 3:11-24 A. _The Text_ For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one...
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. BELOVED. There is no But contrasting the two cases, 1 John 3:20, because "Beloved" sufficiently marks the transition to the...
8 The title..Adversary" has far more aptness than is at first apparent. Satan is known to us only through his word He never appears otherwise than as the evil creature indicated by his titles. From hi...
3:21 not, (l-7) Subjunctive, as ver. 20, and ch. 1.6,7....
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD AND THE DUTIES AND PRIVILEGES OF SONSHIP 1. The sons of God] RV 'children of God,' adding the words, 'and _such_ we are.' The word translated 'children' here is characteristi...
HOW CAN I BE SURE? 1 JOHN _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 THE CHILDREN OF GOD DO THE RIGHT THINGS (1 JOHN 3:1-10) V1 See what great love the *Father has given to us! He has called us children of God....
When God forgives us, he *cleans us from all *sin. Then our consciences should not continue to blame us. When our consciences do not blame us, we can have confidence to come to God. We have confidenc...
The Secret of Assurance. “Wonder not, brethren, if the world hateth you. _We_ know that we have migrated out of the domain of death into the domain of life, because we love the brethren. He that lovet...
παρρησίαν, see note on 1 John 2:28. ὃ ἐὰν αἰτῶμεν λαμβάνομεν, though not always in the form we expect or desire; the answer may be different from but it is always better than our prayer. St. Augustine...
LOVING IN DEED AND IN TRUTH 1 John 3:13 Love to the brethren is a sign that we have been born into the family. We may not _like_ them all, yet we can _love_ them. If we love, we live; and if we live...
The letter now passed to a discussion of the fellowship of the saints with God as love. The hope born of love will have as its inevitable result the purification of those possessing it. The apostle sh...
THE IMPORTANCE OF LOVING THE BRETHREN It may be easy for one to say he would die for the brethren when such has never been required of him. However, the true test of one's willingness to lovingly sacr...
(21) Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, [then] have we confidence toward God. (21) A third effect also rises from the former, that in these miseries we are sure to be heard, because we are the son...
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. (14) We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. (15) Whosoever hat...
_THE VOICE OF CONSCIENCE_ ‘And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Bel...
21_If our heart condemns not _I have already explained that this refers not to _hypocrites _nor to the gross despisers of God. For how muchsoever the reprobate may approve of their own lives, yet _the...
Now to say that we are born of Him is to say that we are children of God. [13] What a love is that which the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children! [14] Therefore the world know...
BELOVED, IF OUR HEART CONDEMN US NOT,.... Which must be understood, not of a stupidity of mind, as is in unregenerate men, who have no sense of sin, no sorrow for it, or remorse of conscience on accou...
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, _then_ have we confidence toward God. Ver. 21. _Then have we confidence_] Sincerity is the mother of serenity, _Sine qua, tranquillitas omnis tempestas est, _ wi...
_Beloved, if our heart condemn us not_ If our conscience, duly enlightened by the word and Spirit of God, and comparing all our thoughts, words, and works with that word, pronounce that they agree the...
BELOVED, IF OUR HEART CONDEMN US NOT, THEN HAVE WE CONFIDENCE TOWARD GOD....
The reassurance of the Spirit:...
This chapter continues the subject introduced in ch.2:28. Verse 29 has shown that righteousness is an absolute requirement. It is indeed a solid, sound basis for the precious bestowal of the love of t...
16-21 Here is the condescension, the miracle, the mystery of Divine love, that God would redeem the church with his own blood. Surely we should love those whom God has loved, and so loved. The Holy S...
But for their not condemning us, though the expression be merely negative, it must imply somewhat positive; for there are many whose hearts condemn them not, through ignorance of their rule, or oscita...
1 John 3:21 Beloved G27 if G3362 our G2257 heart G2588 not G3362 condemn G2607 (G5725) us G2257 have...
THE CENTRALITY OF CHRISTIAN LOVE (1 JOHN 3:11 TO 1 JOHN 4:21). The reference to loving one's brother, deliberately added almost as an appendage in 1 John 3:10 in order to introduce the next section, n...
EXHORTATION THAT OUR CHRISTIAN LOVE SHOULD BE PRACTICAL (1 JOHN 3:16). As throughout John is now concerned that those he speaks to should examine their hearts to ensure that they really are true Chris...
‘Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God, and whatever we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. And this i...
_THE PRIVILEGE OF CONFIDENCE._ 1 John 3:19. Hereby: this looks back, taking up the word ‘truth,' according to the well-known habit of the writer in beginning a new theme. But he deepens the meaning of...
The apostle now introduces a new order of thought, governed by the idea of regeneration as the gift of life in Christ to individual man. He first (down to chap. 1 John 3:3) dilates on its glory as a b...
IF OUR HEART CONDEMN US NOT (εαν η καρδια μη καταγινωσκη). Condition of third class with εαν μη and present active subjunctive. The converse of the preceding, but not a claim to sinlessness, but th...
1 John 3:19 God Greater than Our Heart. I. The subject with which these verses deal is an accusing conscience and its antidote. St. John does not say that the heart may not accuse justly. He does not...
1 John 3:10. In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. For this is the message th...
1 John 3:1. _Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God:_ Behold it, wonder at it, and never cease to admire it. Is it not one of the great...
1 John 3:1. _Behold,_ For there is no greater wonder out of heaven than this: «Behold,» 1 John 3:1. _What manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: t...
I have read this chapter many times in your hearing, but we cannot read it too often, for it is full of the deepest and most important instruction. God grant that fresh light from above may shine upon...
CONTENTS: God's love magnified and the believer exhorted to holiness. Brotherly love urged. How our hearts may be assured before God. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Satan, Cain, John. CONCLUSION: It is a w...
1 John 3:1. _That we should be called the sons of God!_ The character of the favoured race is defined in the preseding verses: they keep the commandments of God: 1 John 3:3. They abide in Christ by wo...
IF OUR HEART DOES NOT CONDEMN US. "If the fact that we _love_ will quiet the fears of our hearts, even though we see our mistakes; how much more courage will we have in God's presence if we live so th...
_But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?_ RIGHTEOUSNESS ESSENTIAL TO THE ANSWER OF A...
_And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before wire _ THE CONNECTION BETWEEN FAITH AND THE STATE OF THE HEART I. There is a certain blessing or privilege here spoken...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 3:21 A clear conscience leads to boldness and CONFIDENCE BEFORE GOD in prayer. ⇐...
CHAPTER 3 VER. 1. _Behold what great love the Father hath bestowed on us_ (unworthy, enemies and sinners as we are), _that we should be called, and be the sons of God._ Love, actively, His wondrous lo...
_If_ _our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence towards God_, viz., that we shall obtain from Him all that we ask. See Psalms 119:6. The contrary is the case with the wicked. See Proverbs 28:9...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 3:18. IN WORD.—Profession, mere boasting. True love finds expression in service. “St. John hints that there is some danger of this conventionality amongst his f...
EXPOSITION 1 JOHN 3:1 TO 1 JOHN 5:12 3. SECOND MAIN DIVISION. _God is Love._ 1 JOHN 3:1
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God (1 John 3:1): I love that verse. Behold, what manner of love God has bestowed upon you, that you sh...
1 Corinthians 4:4; 1 John 2:28; 1 John 4:17; 1 Timothy 2:8;...
Beloved. The affectionate address is suggested by the preceding thought of tormenting self - accusation. Confidence [π α ρ ρ η σ ι α ν]. Rev., boldness. See on 2 28....
CHILDREN OF GOD 1 John 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS What a wonderful truth is this: "Now are we the sons of God." What! We who were once children of darkness, are now the children of light; we who were c...
If our heart condemn us not — If our conscience, duly enlightened by the word and Spirit of God, and comparing all our thoughts, words, and works with that word, pronounce that they agree therewith. T...