And all three agree. The notes on 1 John 5:6 show how they give their witness. The false teachers who claim that Jesus is not The Christ are to be examined in view of the witness which the Spirit, the water, and the blood all agree upon!!! All three agree that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, the Eternal Logos who became a human being!!!
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Verse 8. _THE SPIRIT, AND THE WATER, AND THE BLOOD_] This verse is supposed to mean "_the Spirit_-in the word confirmed by miracles; the _water_-in baptism, wherein we are dedicated to the Son, (with...
AND THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR WITNESS IN EARTH - This is a part of the text, which, if the reasoning above is correct, is to be omitted. The genuine passage reads, 1 John 5:7, “For there are three tha...
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...
LOVE WITHIN THE DIVINE FAMILY (1 John 5:1-2)...
This is he who came through water and blood--Jesus Christ. It was not only by water that he came, but by water and by blood. And it is the Spirit which testifies to this, because the Spirit is truth;...
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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...
_And there are three that bear witness in earth_ These words also are part of the spurious insertion. The true text of 1 John 5:7 runs: _For those who bear witness are three, the Spirit, and the water...
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...
ΤῸ ὝΔΩΡ ΚΑῚ ΤῸ ΑἾΜΑ. These of course have the same meaning as before; Christ’s Baptism and Death. “The real value of our Lord’s baptism and His death may be estimated by supposing that neither had tak...
AND THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR WITNESS IN EARTH, &C.— "And in concurring testimony with these three divine Persons in heaven, who subsist in the unity of the Godhead, and have given their distinct atte...
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...
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. AGREE IN ONE, [ eis (G1519) to (G3588) hen (G1520) eisin ...
VERSE 8. AND THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR WITNESS IN EARTH. That the Spirit, and the water, and the blood testify here on earth, we endeavored to show in our exposition of verse 6. They all bear testimo...
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...
5:8 agree (c-12) 'Are to one point or purpose' -- to one thing in their testimony. It is more than 'agree.'...
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 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...
The Threefold Testimony to the Incarnation. “This is He that came through water and blood, Jesus Christ; not in the water only, but in the water and in the blood. And it is the Spirit that testifieth,...
The Water (the Lord's consecrated Life) and the Blood (His sacrificial Death) are testimonies to the Incarnation, but they are insufficient. A third testimony, that of the Spirit, is needed to reveal...
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...
And there are three that give testimony on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three are one. [3] This is a repetition of what was before said, ver. 6, to be expounded in the same m...
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...
8_There are three _He applies what had been said of water and blood to it’s own purpose, in order that they who reject Christ might have no excuse; for by testimonies abundantly strong and clear, he p...
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...
AND THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR WITNESS ON EARTH,.... To the same truth of the sonship of Christ: THE SPIRIT, AND THE WATER, AND THE BLOOD; by the "Spirit" is not meant the human Spirit or soul of Chri...
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. Ver. 8. _The Spirit and the water_] The Spirit of sanctification testified by s...
_And there are three that bear witness on earth_ To the same important doctrine concerning Christ, the Son of God, and salvation through him; _the Spirit, the water, and the blood_ The _Spirit_ here,...
AGREE IN ONE; they unite in one and the same testimony concerning the character and office of Jesus as the Messiah. The necessity and efficacy of the atonement of Christ, of faith in him, and of the p...
The testimony of God:...
AND THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR WITNESS IN EARTH, THE SPIRIT, AND THE WATER, AND THE BLOOD; AND THESE THREE AGREE IN ONE. St. John here shows that the foundation of our faith is absolutely firm and cert...
“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...
6-8 We are inwardly and outwardly defiled; inwardly, by the power and pollution of sin in our nature. For our cleansing there is in and by Christ Jesus, the washing of regeneration and the renewing o...
And for the three that are said to BEAR WITNESS ON EARTH; there is, first, THE SPIRIT, who, though the Holy Ghost were in the former triad, needs not here be taken for another Spirit, but may be the s...
A Treatise on Re-Baptism by an Anonymous Writer Moreover, I think also that we have not unsuitably set in order the teaching of the Apostle John, who says that "three bear witness, the Spirit, and th...
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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...
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 5:7-8. FOR THERE ARE THREE WHO BEAR WITNESS [IN HEAVEN, THE FATHER, THE WORD, AND THE HOLY GHOST: AND THESE THREE ARE ONE. AND THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR WITNESS ON EARTH], THE SPIRIT, AND THE W...
THE SPIRIT AND THE WATER AND THE BLOOD (το πνευμα κα το υδωρ κα το αιμα). The same three witnesses of verses 1 John 5:6; 1 John 5:7 repeated with the Spirit first.THE THREE (ο τρεις). The resumpt...
IN EARTH Omit "in earth." AGREE Or, are to one point or purpose....
1 John 5:6 The Spirit, the Water, and the Blood. I. Consider the testimony of the water. I believe that the reference here is exclusively to baptism the baptism of Jesus Himself, and probably also th...
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._ Take comfort, believer, from that declaration. You have accepted Jesus as the Christ the anointed of God, so the apostle aff...
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...
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...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:7 The gospel is not based merely on human testimony. There are in fact THREE THAT TESTIFY. These are the witness of the SPIRIT (see note on v. 6), the...
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 5:4. OVERCOMETH THE WORLD.—The world is regarded as the sphere of the self-seeking principle. He who is born of God is born into another sphere—the sphere of the...
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 5:6; 1 John 5:7; 1 Peter 3:21; 2 Corinthians 1:22; Acts 15:15;...
Agree in one [ε ι ς τ ο ε ν ε ι σ ι ν]. Lit., are for the one. They converge upon the one truth, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, come in the flesh....
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...
And there are three that testify in heaven — The testimony of the Spirit, the water, and the blood, is by an eminent gradation corroborated by three, who give a still greater testimony. The Father — W...
As if the apostle had said, "As there are three in heaven who have given us their testimony to the divinity of Christ and his doctrine here on earth, so there are three witnesses here below testifying...