Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 John 4:11
(9) Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
(9) An other reason by comparison: if God so loved us, shall not we his children love one another?
(9) Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
(9) An other reason by comparison: if God so loved us, shall not we his children love one another?
Verse 11. _IF GOD SO LOVED US_] Without any reason or consideration on our part, and without any _desert_ in us; _we ought_ _also_, in like manner, _to love one another_, and not suspend our love to...
BELOVED, IF GOD SO LOVED US, WE OUGHT ALSO TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER - * Because he is so much exalted above us, and if he has loved those who were so inferior and so unworthy, we ought to love those who...
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...
John returns to the theme of 1 John 3:14 ff., be cause if the Church is the home of truth, still more is it the home of love. The evidence for our Divine sonship is that the love manifested by God in...
Beloved, let us love one another, because love has its source in God, and everyone who loves has God as the source of his birth and knows God. He who does not love has not come to know God. In this Go...
THE PERILS OF THE SURGING LIFE OF THE SPIRIT (1 John 3:24 B- 1 John 4:1) _ 4:1 This is how we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he gave to us. Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but t...
OUGHT ALSO. also ought....
Love is the Mark of the Children of the God who is Love 7. _Beloved, let us love one another_ See on 1 John 3:2. The transition seems abrupt, as if the Apostle had summarily dismissed an unwelcome sub...
_Beloved_ For the sixth and last time the Apostle uses this appropriate address: see on 1 John 3:2. No address of any kind occurs again until the last verse of the Epistle. _if God so loved us_ As in...
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 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...
7–21. LOVE IS THE MARK OF THE CHILDREN OF THE GOD WHO IS LOVE...
ἈΓΑΠΗΤΟΊ. For the sixth and last time the Apostle uses this appropriate address. Here also it affectionately emphasizes a deduction of practical importance. See on 1 John 3:2 and comp. 1 John 4:7. No...
ΉΓΆΠΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΓΑΠΆΩ (G25) любить, ΌΦΕΊΛΟΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΟΦΕΊΛΩ (G3784) быть морально обязанным, быть должным; "мы должны" ΆΓΑΠΆΝ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΆΓΑΠΆΩ (G25) любить....
WE OUGHT ALSO TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER.— We, as his children, ought to imitate the infinitelyamiableexampleofourcommonFather,andsincerelyandaffectionately love one another. Sometimes the love of God the Fa...
HEREBY WE KNOW PART IV 1 John 4:7-21; 1 John 5:1-21 GOD IS LOVE Divine Sonship Tested By The Inter-Relationship Of: 1. Love 2. Faith 3. Righteousness CHAPTER XII _THE SOURCE OF LOVE_...
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. God's love to us the grand motive for love to one another (). IF - as we all admit. WE OUGHT ALSO - as born of God, and therefore...
VERSE 11. BELOVED, IF GOD SO LOVED US. Now, if God so loved us while we were sinners, we at least ought to show our gratitude for his matchless mercy by imitating his example in loving one another....
3 The spirit of antichrist is the spirit of the world. It does not want the Christ of the Scriptures, but prefers some substitute more suited to its taste. This spirit has come to pervade, not only th...
WE OUGHT ALSO] RV 'we also ought.'...
FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD IN LOVE 1. Try the spirits] RV 'Prove the spirits.' The verb is used of testing metals. 2, 3. See on 2 John 1:7....
HOW CAN I BE SURE? 1 JOHN _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 4 TEST THE *SPIRITS TO SEE IF THEY ARE TRUE (1 JOHN 4:1-6) V1 My friends, do not believe every *spirit. First, make sure where they are from. Se...
THE PERFECT LOVE THE SUREST TEST (1 John 4:7). (_a_) _Fraternal love the necessary product of the true knowledge of God, because God is love_ (1 John 4:7). (_b_) _The grand recent historical exhibi...
Here, as in John 3:16, οὕτως may denote either the extent or the manner of God's love “to such an extent,” going such a length (_cf._ Romans 8:32); “in such a manner,” righteously, not by a facile amn...
The Blessedness of Love. “Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God, and every one that loveth of God hath been begotten and is getting to know God. He that loveth not did not get to kn...
THE TOKEN OF GOD'S LOVE 1 John 4:1 In those days the intense ferment of men's minds wrought many delusions and heresies which were fraught with temptation to young converts, and the Apostle wished to...
Two closely related perils threaten our fellowship with God as love, false prophets and the spirit which actuates them. Teaching is to be tested by the indwelling Spirit. All who refuse to confess tha...
GOD'S CHILDREN ARE KNOWN BY THEIR LOVE God's children can be identified by their love for others, which was first demonstrated by the Father. God was willing to give up His Son for the good of those l...
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. (8) He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. (9) In this was manifested the...
_REFLECTED LOVE_ ‘Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.’ 1 John 4:11 Thus St. John has summed up his argument, and this is ‘the conclusion of the whole matter.’ Whom are w...
11_Beloved _Now the Almighty accommodates to his own purpose what he has just taught us respecting the love of God; for he exhorts us by God’s example to brotherly love; as also Paul sets before us Ch...
Now, to make use of this last proof, caution was required, for many false prophets would assume, and even in the time of the apostle had already assumed, the semblance of having received communication...
BELOVED, IF GOD SO LOVED US,.... As to send his Son to be a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins, and to obtain eternal life for us through his sufferings and death: the apostle uses the same language...
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. Ver. 11. _If God so loved us_] His one example easily answereth all our objections, taketh off all our excuses; as that our brother is...
_Herein is love_ Worthy of our highest admiration; _not that we loved God_ First; for we were, on the contrary, in a state of enmity to him, in which, if we had remained unsolicited and untouched by h...
The most wondrous exhibition of the love of God was the gift of his Son, to be the propitiation for the sins of the world; and the right apprehension and cordial reception of this truth is the most po...
Dwelling in God and in His love:...
BELOVED, IF GOD SO LOVED US, WE OUGHT ALSO TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER....
But there must be guards as to the operation of the Spirit of God, that is, the child of God must be guarded against all that would imitate the operation of the Spirit. Satan is extremely cunning, and...
7-13 The Spirit of God is the Spirit of love. He that does not love the image of God in his people, has no saving knowledge of God. For it is God's nature to be kind, and to give happiness. The law o...
We discover little sense of this love of his to us, if we do not so....
1 John 4:11 Beloved G27 if G1487 God G2316 so G3779 loved G25 (G5656) us G2248 we G2249 also...
‘Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.' The greatness of this love of God, so wonderfully revealed, can only move those who believe in it and respond to it to love one anothe...
1 John 4:9-11. God is love; and IN THIS WAS THE LOVE OF GOD MANIFESTED IN US: it had its one supreme expression ‘in our case,' ‘in us' as its sphere. This explains what follows, in the perfect. THAT G...
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...
IF GOD SO LOVED US (ε ουτως ο θεος ηγαπησεν ημας). Condition of first class with ε and the first aorist active indicative. As in John 3:16, so here ουτως emphasises the manifestation of God's love...
1 John 4:11 Sacrifice and Service. I. The sacrifice of love. It is of this that St. John speaks when he says, "In this was manifested the love of God toward us." True, the visible world teems with il...
1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world._ If John had need to say that in the early mornin...
1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirit whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world._ This is an unction of which there is great need i...
1 John 4:9. _In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him._ There is love in our creation; there is lov...
1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit,_ A simpleton believes every word that he hears, but «the wise man's eyes are in his head,» so he examines what he sees and hears, and does not blindly...
1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world._ It was so in John's day: it is so in these days....
CONTENTS: Christians warned of false doctrines concerning Christ's person and work. Tests of the true. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, anti-christ, John. CONCLUSION: God's people must be ever c...
1 John 4:1. _Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God._ Whether those teachers believe that Christ is come in the flesh, which to the present hour the unbelieving jews den...
IF THIS IS HOW. "If God could set such an example (1 John 4:10), then we who belong to God must imitate Him by loving one another!!!" Christian love is treating others as God has treated us through Ch...
1 JOHN 4:7 The Assurance of God through the Love of God. John’s teaching in these verses is like the apostle Paul’s “love chapter,” 1 Corinthians 13:1.1 JOHN—NOTE ON
Would someone please check the Psalm number in sentence formatted in blue in the 3rd note of ver. 18. CHAPTER 4 1. _Most dearly beloved_, &c. By the word _spirit_ he means suggestion, inspiration, im...
_Dearly beloved, if God so loved us_, &c. _If_ here is not a particle expressive of doubtfulness. It is not conditional, but causal, and is equivalent to _because_. It means, _Because God so loves us....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 4:7.—The previous verses are in some sense an “aside.” The apostle now resumes his proper theme. His main truth is this—Love is the mark of the children of God,...
EXPOSITION 1 JOHN 4:1 - 1 JOHN 5:12 (2) _The source of son-ship. _Possession of the Spirit. 1 JOHN 4:1 Confession of the Incarnation is
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to I John chapter 4. As we go back to verse 1 John 4:24 of chapter 3, the later portion, "Hereby we know that He abides in us by the Spirit which He has given us." I kn...
1 John 3:16; 1 John 3:17; 1 John 3:23; 2 Corinthians 8:8; 2 Cori
So [ο υ τ ω ς]. Emphatic. We ought. See on 2 6....
TESTING THE TRUE AND THE FALSE 1 John 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have in our opening verses some important admonitions, and also some important instructions. 1. IMPORTANT ADMONITIONS. (1) "Believe...
THE LOVE OF GOD CHAPTER 1 John 4:7 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have always thought of the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians as the Love Chapter. However, we have in the Word of God another chapter whic...
Observe, 1. The genuine inference which our apostle draws from the doctrine laid down concerning the greatness of God's love to us; namely, "that seeing God so loved us, we should love one another, an...