Darby's translation notes (1890)
1 John 5:19
5:19 wicked (h-15) Or 'in wickedness.' This word, which may mean both, is also used for 'the wicked one,' as ch. 3.12.
5:19 wicked (h-15) Or 'in wickedness.' This word, which may mean both, is also used for 'the wicked one,' as ch. 3.12.
Verse 19. _WE KNOW THAT WE ARE OF GOD_] Have the fullest proof of the truth of Christianity, and of our own reconciliation to God through the death of his Son. _THE WHOLE WORLD LIETH IN WICKEDNESS._...
AND WE KNOW THAT WE ARE OF GOD - We who are Christians. The apostle supposed that true Christians might have so clear evidence on that subject as to leave no doubt on their own minds that they were th...
VI. CONCLUSION CHAPTER 5:14-21 The conclusion of this great Epistle mentions first the practical confidence which a believer may have, the outcome of that relationship and fellowship with the Father...
CONCLUSION. A reminder of the writer's purpose, an assertion of the value and also the limitations of intercessory prayer, and a summary of the teaching of the epistle. 1 JOHN 5:13. THAT. LIFE: John...
We know that he who has received his birth from God does not sin, but he whose birth was from God keeps him, and the Evil One does not touch him. We know that it is from God that we draw our being, a...
LOVE WITHIN THE DIVINE FAMILY (1 John 5:1-2)...
WICKEDNESS. the wicked one, as 1 John 5:18. He is the prince of this world (John 14:30, &c), and the god of this age (2 Corinthians 4:4)....
The Sum of the Christian's Knowledge 18 20. The Epistle now draws rapidly to a close. Having briefly, yet with much new material, retouched some of the leading ideas of the Epistle, eternal life, fait...
_And we know_ The conjunction must be omitted on abundant authority. This introduces the second great fact of which the believer has sure knowledge. And, as so often, S. John's divisions are not sharp...
Conclusion and Summary Some modern writers consider that 1 John 5:13 constitutes the conclusion of the Epistle, the remainder (14 21) being a postscript or appendix, analogous to chap. 21. of the Gos...
ΟἼΔΑΜΕΝ. The conjunction must be omitted on abundant authority. This introduces the second great fact of which the believer has sure knowledge. And, as so often, S. John’s divisions are not sharp, but...
18–20. THE SUM OF THE CHRISTIAN’S KNOWLEDGE 18–20. The Epistle now draws rapidly to a close. Having briefly, yet with much new material, retouched some of the leading ideas of the Epistle, eternal lif...
13–21. CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY Some modern writers consider that 1 John 5:13 constitutes the conclusion of the Epistle, the remainder (14–21) being a postscript or appendix, analogous to chap. 21 of t...
Ο'ΊΔΑΜΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΟΙΔΑ (G1492) знать. Def. perf. со значением _praes._ ΌΛΟΣ (G3650) целый, полный, ΚΕΊΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΚΕΪΜΑΙ (G2749) лежать (RWP)....
AND WE KNOW THAT WE ARE OF GOD, &C.— "And we are well satisfied that we are so born of God, as to be partakers of a divine nature, which is a powerful and abiding principle of all holiness; and that w...
CHAPTER XVI _HEREBY WE KNOW_ 1 John 5:13-21 A. _The text_ These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God...
And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. WORLD LIETH IN WICKEDNESS, [ en (G1722) too (G3588) poneeroo (G4190)] - rather, 'lieth in the wicked one,' as...
VERSE 19. AND WE KNOW THAT WE ARE OF GOD. By keeping ourselves from sin, we know that we are of God, that we are God's children, belong to his family, the church of Christ. While this is true, the wo...
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...
(3) SOME PRACTICAL POINTS RECAPITULATED (1 John 5:18). (_a_) _God’s sons do not sin_ (1 John 5:18). St. John refers back to “that ye may know” in 1 John 5:13, and sums up three points from former po...
CHAPTER 4 THE IMAGE OF ST. JOHN'S SOUL IN HIS EPISTLE 1 John 5:18 Much has been said in the last few years of a series of subtle and delicate experiments in sound. Means have been devised of doing f...
The Certainties of Christian Faith. St. John has been speaking of a dark mystery, and now he turns from it: “Do not brood over it. Think rather of the splendid certainties and rejoice in them.”...
The Epistle is finished, and the Apostle now speaks his closing words. “These things I wrote to you that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even to you that believe in the name of the Son of God....
Our Security in God's Embrace. ὁ κόσμος : “Non creatura sed seculares nomines et secundum concupiscentias viventes” (Clem. Alex.). See note on 1 John 2:15. τῷ πονηρῷ, masc. as in previous verse κεῖται...
ASK ACCORDING TO HIS WILL 1 John 5:13 We know that we have eternal life. The rope is in our hand bearing us onward, but its ends are hidden from view in the past and in the future. We also know that...
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...
"SIN LEADING TO DEATH" John next wrote about a "sin leading to death." Several other passages in scripture appear to speak of that sin (Hebrews 6:4-6; Hebrews 10:26-27; 2 Peter 2:20-22;...
(18) [And] we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. (18) Every man must particularly apply to himself the general promises, that we may certainly persuade ourselves, that...
_And the whole world is seated in wickedness; [6] i.e. a great part of the world. It may also signify, is under the wicked one; meaning the devil, who is elsewhere called the prince of this world, tha...
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us: (15) And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petition...
19_We are of God _He deduces an exhortation from his previous doctrine; for what he had declared in common as to the children of God, he now applies to those he was writing to; and this he did, to sti...
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] WE KNOW THAT WE ARE OF GOD,.... The sons of God, and regenerated by him; this is known by the Spirit of God, which witnesses to the spirits of the saints that they are the children of God; and b...
_And_ we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. Ver. 19. _Lieth in wickedness_] As a lubber in a lake, as a carcase in its slime. _In fermento tota iacet uxor, _ My wife li...
_We know_, &c. As if he had said, Yet this gives no encouragement to sin. On the contrary, it is an indisputable truth, _that whosoever is born of God_ That is, regenerated and made a new creature; se...
LIETH IN WICKEDNESS; under the influences of the wicked one....
The obligations of divine sonship:...
AND WE KNOW THAT WE ARE OF GOD, AND THE WHOLE WORLD LIETH IN WICKEDNESS....
“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...
18-21 All mankind are divided into two parties or dominions; that which belongs to God, and that which belongs to the wicked one. True believers belong to God: they are of God, and from him, and to h...
And this he doth not exclusively assume to himself, but expresses his charitable confidence of them to whom he writes, that it was their privilege, in common with him, to be thus _of God, _ or born of...
Origen de Principiis Book I , of an earthly habitation: for he exercised power over those who were obedient to his wickedness, since "the whole of this world"-for I term this place of earth, world-"l...
1 John 5:19 know G1492 (G5758) that G3754 are G2070 (G5748) of G1537 God G2316 and G2532 whole...
THEY ARE TO LOOK TO THE ONE WHO HAS BEGOTTEN THEM TO ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST AND KEEP THEMSELVES FROM SIN AND FROM THE WORLD (1 JOHN 5:18). ‘We know that whoever is begotten of God does not...
CONCLUSION (1 JOHN 5:14). John concludes his letter with four major points. 1) The certainty that Christians can have of victory through prayer. In the face of all that confronts them they can be bo...
The Epistle winds up with three summarizing declarations, each of which repeats the watchword, ‘we know,' taken, but in a better sense, from the Gnostic ‘we know:' the first, 1 John 5:18, asserts the...
OF GOD (εκ του θεου). See 1 John 3:10; 1 John 4:6 for this idiom.LIETH IN THE EVIL ONE (εν τω πονηρω κειτα). Present middle indicative of the defective verb κειμα, to lie, as in Luke 2:12. Πονηρω...
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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...
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WE KNOW. See Colossians 1:13 and note. "Even though the Evil One holds the whole world in his grasp, we have escaped through Christ!!! We know that we belong to God because we are now safe in the king...
_We know that we are of God _ ALL TRUE BELIEVERS ARE OF GOD, AND SO SEPARATED FROM THE WORLD LYING IN WICKEDNESS I. How true believers are of God. 1. By creation; and so all things are of God (Roma...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:19 WE ARE FROM GOD. Christians have been spiritually reborn. In that sense they are children of God. THE WHOLE WORLD. See note on 2:15....
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:13 Final Call to Faith and Understanding. “Know” occurs seven times in these verses. This indicates John’s focus on the assurance of Christian faith and salvation....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 5:13 may be treated as a summary and conclusion. They divide into three parts: 1. Faith in the Son of God, eternal life, and love of the brethren showing itsel...
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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 3:14; 1 John 3:24; 1 John 4:4; 1 John 4:4; 1 John 4:5;...
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We know that we are children of God — By the witness and the fruit of his Spirit, 1 John 3:24. But the whole world — All who have not his Spirit, not only is "touched" by him, but by idolatry, fraud,...
That is, the far greater part of the world are under the dominion of that wicked one, being sunk into idolatry, and become worshippers of the devil, continuing in the midst of their impurity and malig...