Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 John 2:6
(5) He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
(5) He that is one with Christ, must live his life, that is, must walk in his steps.
(5) He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
(5) He that is one with Christ, must live his life, that is, must walk in his steps.
1 JOHN 2:6 @ou[twj# {C} The external evidence for and against the presence of ou[twj is rather evenly divided (a C Y 81 _al_ for; A B 33 2464* _al_ against). From a transcriptional point of view, the...
Verse 6. _ABIDETH IN HIM_] He who not only professes to have known Christ, but also that he has communion with him, and abides in his favour, should prove the truth of his profession by walking as Chr...
HE THAT SAITH, HE ABIDETH IN HIM - Greek, “remains” in him; that is, abides or remains in the belief of his doctrines, and in the comfort and practice of religion. The expression is one of those which...
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...
And it is by this that we know that we have come to know him--if we keep his commandments. He who says, "I have come to know him" and who does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not...
A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
ABIDETH. See p. 1511. EVEN AS. Greek. _kathos_. The expression "as He", referring to the Son, Occurs six times in this epistle. See 1 John 3:2; 1 John 3:3; 1 John 3:7...
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
_He that saith_ He who declares his position is morally bound to act up to the declaration which he has made. To profess to abide in God involves an obligation to imitate the Son, who is the concrete...
1 John 2:1-6. Obedience to God by Imitation of Christ 1 6. The Apostle is still treating of the condition and conduct of the believer as determined by his walking in the light; there is no break betwe...
1 John 2:1-6. OBEDIENCE TO GOD BY IMITATION OF CHRIST 1–6. The Apostle is still treating of the condition and conduct of the believer as determined by his walking in the light; there is no break betwe...
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...
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. GOD IS LIGHT...
6. Before ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΕΙ͂Ν omit οὕτως with [459][460] against [461][462][463]. [459] 5th century. Brought by Cyril Lucar, Patriarch of Constantinople, from Alexandria, and afterwards presented by him to Ch...
ΛΈΓΩΝ _praes. act. part. (subst.)_ от ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить, ΜΈΝΕΙΝ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΜΈΝΩ (G3306) пребывать. _Praes._ этого гл. обозначает постоянное пребывание в Нем (_см._ John 15:4; Schnacken...
DISCOURSE: 2435 CHRIST AN EXAMPLE TO HIS FOLLOWERS 1 John 2:6. _He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked_. AMONG the various excellencies which distinguish Chr...
HEREBY WE KNOW PART II 1 John 1:8-10; 1 John 2:1-29 God Is Light. To Walk In The Light Is To Have Fellowship With Him Fellowship Is Tested By Our Sharing of God's Attitude Toward: 1. Personal Guil...
He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. ABIDETH - a condition lasting, without intermission and end. HE THAT SAITH ... OUGHT. So that his deeds may be c...
VERSE 6. HE THAT SAITH HE ABIDETH IN HIM. One may say, I am in the fellowship of God and his Son. That being true, such an one ought to show by his godly life that he walks as the Savior walked while...
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...
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...
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...
The fourth inference from the doctrine that God is Light analyses more accurately the general expression of 1 John 1:7, _walking in the light._ If Christ is, as in 1 John 2:1, the Paraclete and Propit...
CHAPTER 9 THE INFLUENCE OF THE GREAT LIFE WALK A PERSONAL INFLUENCE 1 John 2:6 THIS verse is one of those in reading which we may easily fall into the fallacy of mistaking familiarity for knowledge...
The Proof of our Interest in Christ's Propitiation and Advocacy. “And herein we get to know that we know Him if we observe His commandments. He that saith ‘I know Him,' and observeth not His commandme...
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...
FEELINGS ARE NOT A VALID TEST There are those who answer the question, "Do you know God?", by saying, "Yes, I can feel His presence in my heart." While it may help one to feel he has God's presence wi...
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. (4) He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. (5) But whoso keepeth his...
6_He that saith he abideth in him _As he has before set before us God as light for an example, he now calls us also to Christ, that we may imitate him. Yet he does not simply exhort us to imitate Chri...
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 SAITH HE ABIDETH IN HIM,.... As all do that are in him; once in Christ, and always in Christ; they are set as a seal on his arm and heart, which can never be removed; they are in his arms, and...
He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. Ver. 6. _To walk even as he walked_] This is the same with that Colossians 2:6, to walk in Christ; and with that,1 Pe...
_Hereby we do know that we_, truly and savingly, _know him_ As he is the Advocate, the righteous One, the Propitiation; _if we keep his commandments_ Particularly those of faith and love. _He that sai...
HE THAT SAITH HE ABIDETH IN HIM; he who professes to be in union with Christ, must show the reality of his profession by walking as Christ walked. Union with Christ is the good tree, and this is known...
HE THAT SAITH HE ABIDETH IN HIM OUGHT HIMSELF ALSO SO TO WALK EVEN AS HE WALKED. Faith in Christ the Savior confirms, establishes, the fellowship which we have with Him and our heavenly Father. The re...
Keeping Christ's commandments:...
“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...
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...
And this proof we ought to give. For whereas our Lord Jesus Christ was not only our Lawgiver, but our pattern, and practised himself what he commanded us; if indeed we have an abiding, real union with...
Tertullian On Monogamy When, however, he turns their minds back to continence, ("But I will you all so to be,") "I think, moreover," he says, "I too have the Spirit of God; "in order that, if he had...
1 John 2:6 says G3004 (G5723) abides G3306 (G5721) in G1722 Him G846 ought G3784 (G5719) himself...
HOW THEN CAN WE KNOW THAT WE TRULY KNOW CHRIST? (1 JOHN 2:3). Many were claiming that they knew God, that they had special knowledge of Him, that through their own particular religious ordinances they...
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...
_Fellowship in the knowledge of God: obedience, love, and union, 1 John 2:3_. The best account that can be given of this section- more aphoristic than any other is that it lays down certain principle...
HIMSELF ALSO TO WALK (κα αυτος περιπατειν). Present active infinitive after οφειλε (ought), "Himself also to keep on walking," a continuous performance, not a spasmodic spurt.EVEN AS HE WALKED (κα...
1 John 2:3 Doing and Knowing. I. St. John assumes that the knowledge of God is as possible, is as real, for human beings as any knowledge they can have of each other. Nay, he goes further than this....
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...
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._ That you may abstain from it, and abhor it, and not indulge in anything that would lead you towards it. 1 John 2:1....
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...
SHOULD LIVE JUST AS JESUS CHRIST DID. This is what _obedience_ means. Compare John 15:4 and note, also note on the third use of law at the end of Romans 3:31....
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 2:6 WALK IN THE SAME WAY. Believers can imitate Christ’s faith, love, devotion, obedience, and selflessness (v. 1 John 2:5)....
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...
_He that saith he abide in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked._ By advancing in virtue, especially in charity, and exhibiting its works more and more every day, as Christ "increased...
PROVISION FOR THE SINNING OF BELIEVERS _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ FIRMLY does St. John declare that the Christian should not sin, and must not sin. But he clearly recognises that Christians do...
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 Corinthians 11:1; 1 John 1:6; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 2:28; 1 John 2:4;...
He abideth in Him [ε ν α υ τ ω μ ε ν ε ι ν]. To abide in God is a more common expression with John than to be in God, and marks an advance in thought. The phrase is a favorite one with John. See John...
He that saith he abideth in him — which implies a durable state; a constant, lasting knowledge of, and communion with, him. Ought himself — Otherwise they are vain words. So to walk, even as he walked...
Observe here, 1. An high and honorable privilege supposed to be claimed, and that is union with Christ, and abiding in him; HE THAT SAITH HE ABIDETH IN HIM. The abiding in Christ is. great privilege,...