EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries
1 John 2:10
The Christian who loves other Christians will be in the *light. Where there is *light there can be no *darkness. In the *light, one can see. In the *light, there is nothing to cause *sin or error.
The Christian who loves other Christians will be in the *light. Where there is *light there can be no *darkness. In the *light, one can see. In the *light, there is nothing to cause *sin or error.
Verse 10. _HE THAT LOVETH HIS BROTHER_] That is, his neighbour, his fellow creature, whether Jew or Gentile, so as to bear him continual good will, and to be ready to do him every kind office; _abidet...
HE THAT LOVETH HIS BROTHER ABIDETH IN THE LIGHT - Has true religion, and enjoys it. AND THERE IS NONE OCCASION OF STUMBLING IN HIM - Margin, “scandal.” Greek, “and there is no stumbling” (or scandal -...
II. LIGHT AND DARKNESS AND THE TESTS Chapter S 1:5-2:17 _ 1. God is light; walking in darkness and in light (1 John 1:5)_ 2. What the light manifests (1 John 1:8) 3. The advocacy of Christ to maint...
OBEDIENCE THE PROOF OF FELLOWSHIP. Here John repeats in a positive way the teaching of the previous section. Conduct cannot be, as the false teachers claimed, a matter of indifference, for true knowle...
A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
He who says that he is in the light, and who at the same time hates his brother, is still in the darkness. He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is nothing in him which makes him stu...
LOVETH. App-135. OCCASION, &C. Greek. _skandalon._ See Romans 9:33....
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. God is Light 1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:11. What Walking in the Light involves This section is largely directed against the Gnostic do
Love of the Brethren 7 11. Walking in the light involves not only fellowship with God and with the brethren (1 John 1:5-7), consciousness and confession of sin (1 John 1:8-10), obedience by imitation...
The form of these three verses is similar to that of 1 John 2:3, and still more so to 1 John 1:8-10. In each of these three triplets a case is placed between two statements of the opposite to it; conf...
_abideth in the light_ Not only has entered into it but has made it his _abode:_see on 1 John 2:24. _there is none occasion of stumbling in him_ There are several ways of taking this. 1. He has _in hi...
7–11. LOVE OF THE BRETHREN 7–11. Walking in the light involves not only fellowship with God and with the brethren (1 John 1:5-7), consciousness and confession of sin (1 John 1:8-10), obedience by imit...
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. GOD IS LIGHT...
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:11. WHAT WALKING IN THE LIGHT INVOLVES This section is largely directed against the Gnostic doctrine that to the man of enlightenment all conduct is morally indifferent. Against...
9–11. The form of these three verses is similar to that of 1 John 2:3-5, and still more so to 1 John 1:8-10. In each of these three triplets a case is placed between two statements of the opposite to...
10. ὁ�. Nothing is said about what he _professes_; it is what he _does_ that is of consequence. ΜΈΝΕΙ means not only has entered into the light, but has it for his _abode_: see on 1 John 2:24. ΣΚΆΝΔΑΛ...
ΆΓΑΠΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΆΓΑΠΆΩ (G25) любить (_см._ 1 John 2:5). Subst. part. подчеркивает особенность: "тот, кто постоянно проявляет любовь" ΜΈΝΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΜΈΝΩ (G3306) пребывать ...
THERE IS NONE OCCASION, &C.— _There is no stumbling-block,_ Σκανδαλον, _in him._ By this expression it may be implied, that such a man lays no stumbling-block in the way of others; but it more particu...
CHAPTER V _TO WALK IN THE LIGHT IS TO SHARE GOD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD OUR BROTHERS IN CHRIST_ (The Second Test. The First Time) 1 John 2:7-17 A. _The Text_ Beloved, no new commandment write I unto yo...
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. Abi...
VERSE 10. HE THAT LOVETH HIS BROTHER ABIDETH IN THE LIGHT. The proof that one is in the light that is, conforming his conduct to the new teaching of Christ is to be shown only by love for his brother...
1 The ministry of John is based upon his personal acquaintance with the Lord in the flesh. Indeed, this was the prime qualification of all the twelve apostles (Act_1:21). They were to bear witness to...
OCCASION OF STUMBLING] lit. 'stumbling-block,' that which may cause himself or others to fall, in this case probably (see next v.) himself. Without love no one can walk in the light of God's truth. 12...
THE ADVOCACY OF CHRIST AND THE OBLIGATIONS OF BELIEVERS 1. My little children] The diminutive implies the fatherly care which the aged Apostle felt for his disciples. ADVOCATE] The word thus translate...
Here (1 John 2:9) is the chief way in which the old commandment, the new commandment, the word from the beginning, the walk in light would be manifested: brotherly love towards those with whom we have...
A New Meaning in an Old Commandment. “Beloved, it is no new commandment that I am writing to you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye heard...
ἐν τῷ φωτὶ μένει : he does not merely catch glimpses of the light but “abideth in it,” being of one mind with God, the common Father, who “is light” (1 John 1:5). σκάνδαλον οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐτῷ, “there i...
KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENT OF LOVE 1 John 2:1 It is clearly possible to be kept from known and presumptuous sin. We shall be tempted, for that is an inevitable experience of life in this world; but we m...
Affirming that the purpose of his writing is that we sin not, the writer declared that even if we sin, provision is made by which it may be put away. The tests whereby we may know our relation to ligh...
THOSE IN THE LIGHT LOVE THE BRETHREN The claim to be in the light, therefore in fellowship with God (1 John 1:5-7), is easily tested by our attitude toward our brethren. God displayed such love for th...
Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. (8) Again, a new commandm...
John says in 1 John 3:11, that we falsely boast of love to God, except we love our brethren; and this is most true. But he now takes love to the brethren as a testimony by which we prove that we love...
If, on the other hand, we have even committed sin and all, being judged according to the light, is confessed (so that the will no longer takes part in it, the pride of that will being broken down), He...
HE THAT LOVETH HIS BROTHER,.... As such, and because he is his brother in Christ, and that cordially and sincerely, without hypocrisy and dissimulation, and by love serves him, both in things temporal...
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. Ver. 10. _None occasion, &c._] Gr. σκανδαλον, No scandal, _i.e._ no occasion of spiritual falling, whe...
_He that saith he is in the light_ In Christ; united to him, and truly enlightened by the gospel and the grace of God; _and_ yet _hateth his brother_ (The very name shows the love due to him;) _is in...
NONE OCCASION OF STUMBLING IN HIM; his soul is illuminated with the light of love: he sees the right way, and walks safely in it without danger of stumbling....
Abiding in the light:...
HE THAT LOVETH HIS BROTHER ABIDETH IN THE LIGHT, AND THERE IS NONE OCCASION OF STUMBLING IN HIM....
“My children, these things I write to you in order that ye may not sin; and if anyone sin, we have a patron with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (JND). If we have seen some absolute, positive...
STUMBLING: _ Gr._ scandal...
3-11 What knowledge of Christ can that be, which sees not that he is most worthy of our entire obedience? And a disobedient life shows there is neither religion nor honesty in the professor. The love...
HIS BROTHER, put indefinitely, must be understood universally, i.e. he that loveth not this or that fellow Christian, upon some personal or private reason, but _all, _ upon one and the same common and...
1 John 2:10 loves G25 (G5723) his G846 brother G80 abides G3306 (G5719) in G1722 light G5457 and...
‘Again, a new commandment I do write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines. He who says he is in the light and hates hi...
THE OLD COMMANDMENT AND THE NEW COMMANDMENT (1 JOHN 2:7). Here John stresses the need to stand by what they have originally learned and experienced and by the Light that is already shining among them...
_The new commandment, which is also old: that of brotherly love, 1 John 2:7_. 1 John 2:7. Beloved introducing a new view of the subject by a term appropriate, NO NEW COMMANDMENT WRITE I UNTO YOU, BUT...
First the apostle announces his message that God is light and only light (1 John 1:5). Then follows (down to chap. 1 John 2:2) a universal statement of the evangelical conditions of fellowship with Hi...
ABIDETH (μενε). Present active indicative, continues in the light and so does not interrupt the light by hating his brother.OCCASION OF STUMBLING (σκανδαλον). See on Matthew 13:41; Matthew 16:23 f...
1 John 2:1. My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our...
1 John 2:1. _My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not._ For this we ought to watch and strive, that we sin not. 1 John 2:1. _And if any man sin-_ What then? Is it a hopele...
CONTENTS: Christ's advocacy for the believer. Tests of fellowship, obedience and love. Warning against worldliness and apostates. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, John, Satan, anti-christ. CONCLUSION: To kno...
1 John 2:2. _He is the propitiation for our sin:_ ιλασμος, a ram, or other victim offered as an atoning sacrifice for sin. On Genesis 15:9, the rabbins make a distinction between the heifer, the she g...
WHOEVER LOVES HIS BROTHER. "This one not only sees the light, but stays in it!!!" AND SO THERE IS NOTHING IN _HIM__. MacKnight_ says; "Schismatics and heretics, on pretense of having attained to a gre...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 2:9 HATES HIS BROTHER. John often uses strongly contrasting terms for emphasis (e.g., light vs. darkness, truth vs. lies). DARKNESS HAS BLINDED HIS EYES. “Darkness” and “blindnes...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 2:7 The Unchanging Commandment in a Changing World. John emphasizes the love commandment. He then describes the challenge of living as a Christian in a dark world (vv....
CHAPTER 2 VER. 1. _My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not._ At the end of the last chapter it was said that all who were grown up had sinned, either mortally as heathens, o...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 2:8. NEW COMMANDMENT.—St. John seems to refer to his demand of love to the brethren, as the satisfactory sign of heart-obedience, son-like obedience to the Fathe...
EXPOSITION 1 JOHN 2:1, 1 JOHN 2:2 Moreover, walking in the light involves accepting the propitiation wrought through Jesus Christ the Righteous. The connexion with the preceding is close. We have ju...
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not (1 John 2:1). Now, he is talking about the purpose of writing is to bring you into fellowship with God, but the thing that breaks fel...
1 John 3:14; 2 Peter 1:10; Hosea 6:3; John 8:31; Luke 17:1;...
Abideth [μ ε ν ε ι]. See on ver. 6. Compare ver. 9, is in. Occasion of stumbling [σ κ α ν δ α λ ο ν]. See on offend, Matthew 5:29. For the image in John, see John 6:61; John 11:9;...
He that loveth his brother — For Christ's sake. Abideth in the light — Of God. And there is no occasion of stumbling in him — Whereas he that hates his brother is an occasion of stumbling to himself....