Verse 1 John 2:29. _IF YE KNOW THAT HE IS RIGHTEOUS_] That God is a holy God, _ye know_ also, _that every one who doeth righteousness_-who lives a holy life, following the commandments of God, _is bor...
IF YE KNOW THAT HE IS RIGHTEOUS - This is not said as if there could be any doubt on the subject, but merely to call their attention to it as a well-known truth, and to state what followed from it. Ev...
IV. RIGHTEOUSNESS AND LOVE AS MANIFESTED BY THE CHILDREN OF GOD Chapter S 2:28-3:18 __ 1. The children of God and their coming manifestation (1 John 2:28 -1 John 3:3) 2. Sin and the new nature (1...
1 JOHN 2:29 TO 1 JOHN 5:12. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD'S CHILDREN. 1 John 2:29 to 1 John 3:3. Because God, made known to us in Christ, is righteous, those
A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
If that which you have heard from the beginning remains within you, you too will remain in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise which he made to you eternal life. I am writing these thin...
RIGHTEOUS. App-191. DOETH. practiseth. Greek. _poieo,_ as 1 John 3:7; 1 John 3:10. RIGHTEOUSNESS. App-191. BORN. begotten.. Latin MS., the Fleury Palimpsest, instead of "ashamed, &c.", reads "confou...
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...
1 John 2:29 to 1 John 3:12. The Children of God and the Children of the Devil 29. _If ye know that he is righteous_ This probably does not mean Christ, although the preceding verse refers entirely to...
29. For ΕἸΔΗ͂ΤΕ ([549][550][551], Vulgate) [552][553][554] and some Versions read ἴδητε. Before ΠΑ͂Σ insert ΚΑῚ with [555][556][557], Peschito, Thebaic, and Vulgate against [558][559][560]. [561] and...
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...
ΕΊΔΉΤΕ _perf. conj. act. от_ ΟΙΔΑ (G1492) знать. Def. perf. со значением _praes. Conj._ в _conj._ 3 типа, в котором условие рассматривается как возможное. Здесь не подвергается сомнению Его справедлив...
IF YE KNOW, &C.— "I have before been discoursing of the Divine holiness and purity: now the consideration of this may enable you to judge, whether you are, or are not, in the happy number of the child...
HEREBY WE KNOW PART III 1 John 2:29; 1 John 3:1-24; 1 John 4:1-6 Fellowship With God Considered As Divine Sonship Tested by The Outward Demonstration In Us Of God's Attitude Toward: 1. The Guiltles...
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. Heading of the second division of the letter: 'God is righteous, therefore everyone that doeth right...
VERSE 29. IF YE KNOW THAT HE IS RIGHTEOUS. As through the apostle would ask a queston: Do you know that God is righteous? He has promised that every one who obeys his Son shall inherit eternal life. T...
18 The term "antichrist" occurs only in John's epistles. The prefix "anti" now has the meaning of "against" and antichrist signifies one who is against Christ. But "anti" originally meant "instead of...
2:29 know (e-3) Here _ eidete_ from _ oida_ , conscious knowledge; then _ ginoskete_ from _ ginosko_ , knowledge of something from without, from witness to us. know (f-8) Or 'ye know.'...
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...
IS BORN OF HIM] lit. 'hath been begotten from him.' 'The presence of righteous action is the sure sign of the reality of the divine birth' (Westcott)....
HOW CAN I BE SURE? 1 JOHN _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 2 CHRIST SPEAKS FOR US AND WE SHOULD OBEY GOD (1 JOHN 2:1-6) V1 My *children, I write these things to you so that you will not *sin. But if you...
Christ is *righteous. There is no doubt about that. Those who do what is right are born of God. It is in the character of God that he is *righteous. So, his children will show some of that same charac...
[3. Second Half. God is Love (1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12.) (1) RIGHTEOUSNESS THE CRITERION OF DIVINE BIRTH (1 John 2:29). (2) THE DIVINE BIRTH THE OUTCOME OF GOD’S LOVE ...
In view of the preceding verse δίκαιος must refer to Christ (_cf._ 1 John 2:1), and it is equally certain that ἐξ αὐτοῦ refers to the Father, since “begotten of Christ” (_cf._ Tennyson's “our fair fat...
A Warning against Heretical Teaching. “Little ones, it is the last hour; and, as ye heard that Antichrist is coming, even now have many antichrists arisen; whence we recognise that it is the last hour...
LOYALTY TO TRUTH 1 John 2:18 The Holy One is surely the risen Savior, who has passed into the heavens, whence He bestows the Holy Spirit as a sacred chrism on meek and trustful souls. We can say with...
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...
ABIDING IN CHRIST When one obeys the gospel, he is anointed and sealed with the Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 1:15-22). John reassured his readers by telling them that sealing was something truly promise...
(27) If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. (27) A passing over to the treatise following, which tends to the same purpose, but yet is more am...
REFLECTIONS Reader! let us behold, with holy joy, the gracious provision which God, who is rich in mercy, hath made for sin, in the person, blood, and righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is God...
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. (19) They went out from us, but th...
29._If ye know that he is righteous _He again passes on to exhortations, so that he mingles these continually with doctrine throughout the Epistle; but he proves by many arguments that faith is necess...
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...
IF YE KNOW THAT HE IS RIGHTEOUS,.... That is, Christ, who is righteous as God in his nature and in his works; and as man in his obedience, life, and conversation; and as Mediator, in faithfully discha...
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. Ver. 29. _Is born of him_] And exactly resembles him, as a child doth his father. See 1 Peter 1:17. _S...
_And now, little_ Or rather, _beloved, children_, (for, having finished his address to each, he now returns to all in general,) _abide in him_ Maintain your union with and interest in him, by living a...
EVERY ONE THAT DOETH RIGHTEOUSNESS IS BORN OF HIM; as much as to say, He that doeth righteousness, and no other; since they who are born of God must be like God in character....
IF YE KNOW THAT HE IS RIGHTEOUS, YE KNOW THAT EVERY ONE THAT DOETH RIGHTEOUSNESS IS BORN OF HIM. The entire discussion as it had been carried on by the apostle in the last paragraphs had been in the i...
Abiding in Christ:...
“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...
YE KNOW: Or, know ye...
24-29 The truth of Christ, abiding in us, is a means to sever from sin, and unites us to the Son of God, John 15:3; John 15:4. What value should we put upon gospel truth! Thereby the promise of etern...
Lest he should be thought only solicitous to preserve among them the right notions of the Christian docrine, as if that alone would suffice them for their salvation and blessedness, (which was the con...
1 John 2:29 If G1437 know G1492 (G5762) that G3754 is G2076 (G5748) righteous G1342 know G1097 ...
‘If you know (oida - in the mind) that he is righteous, you know (ginosko - experientially) that every one also who does righteousness is begotten of him.' And because they know Him they know Him as t...
WARNING AGAINST FALSE RELIGION AND FALSE TEACHERS (1 JOHN 2:18). Having warned against the world which is under the control of the Evil One and will stultify their faith, John now warns against false...
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...
_The glory and dignity of regeneration and adoption, both hire and hereafter._ 1 John 2:29. IF YE KNOW THAT HE IS RIGHTEOUS, YE PERCEIVE THAT EVERY ONE ALSO WHO DOETH RIGHTEOUSNESS IS BEGOTTEN OF HIM....
IF YE KNOW (εαν ειδητε). Third-class condition again with εαν and second perfect active subjunctive of οιδα. If ye know by intuitive or absolute knowledge that Christ (because of verse 1 John 2:28)...
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...
YOU KNOW. "You already know that Christ is righteous. Doing what is right, then, is proof that we are God's child!!!" See note on 1 John 2:3. The abrupt movement from _Christ is righteous_ to _God's c...
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 2:24.—Omit “therefore. “WHICH YE HAVE HEARD.—Concerning Christ, and Christ’s truth, on the authority of His apostles. REMAIN … continue—In both cases prefer the...
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...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to I John chapter 2. And we'll begin tonight at verse 1 John 2:12 where we left off last Sunday night. The book of I John is a book of proofs. It isn't what I say; it's...
1 John 2:1; 1 John 3:10; 1 John 3:5; 1 John 3:7; 1 John 3:9;...
Every one — And none else. Who practiseth righteousness — From a believing, loving heart. Is born of him — For all his children are like himself....
Our apostle concludes the chapter with an exhortation to holiness and righteousness; assuring them, that if they be sensible (as they must necessarily be) that God is righteous, essentially and infini...