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Verse 16. _HEREBY PERCEIVE WE THE LOVE OF GOD_] This sixteenth verse
of this third chapter of John's first epistle is, in the main, an
exact counterpart of the sixteenth verse of the third chapter of...
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HEREBY PERCEIVE WE THE LOVE OF GOD - The words “of God” are not in
the original, and should not have been introduced into the
translation, though they are found in the Latin Vulgate, and in the
Geneva...
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IV. RIGHTEOUSNESS AND LOVE AS MANIFESTED
BY THE CHILDREN OF GOD
Chapter S 2:28-3:18
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1. The children of God and their coming manifestation (1 John 2:28 -1
John 3:3)
2. Sin and the new nature (1...
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The hatred of the world is to be expected, but within the Christian
brotherhood there must be love, manifesting itself in deeds of
self-sacrifice in imitation of Christ's love. If we possess this
spir...
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REMEMBER THE PRIVILEGES OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (1 John 3:1-2)...
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In this the children of God and the children of the devil are made
plain; anyone who does not do righteousness is not of God, and neither
is he who does not love his brother, because the message that...
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HEREBY. In (App-104.) this.
PERCEIVE WE. we know, as in 1 John 3:1.
LIFE. App-110. See John 10:15....
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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...
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Love and Hate: Life and Death
_Marvel not, my brethren_ Comp. John 5:28; John 3:7. The antagonism
between the light and the darkness, between God and the evil one,
between righteousness and unrighteou...
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_Hereby perceive we the love of God_ Better, HEREIN KNOW WE LOVE: see
on 1 John 2:3. The Greek is literally, -we have perceived," and
therefore WE KNOW, as R. V., and there is no -of God". The A. V. h...
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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...
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13–24. LOVE AND HATE: LIFE AND DEATH
ΜῊ ΘΑΥΜΆΖΕΤΕ. Comp. John 5:28, and contrast 1 John 3:7.
The antagonism between the light and the darkness, between God and the
evil one, between righteousness and...
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16. For τιθέναι ([635][636]) read ΘΕΙ͂ΝΑΙ
([637][638][639][640]).
[635] 9th century. All three Epistles.
[636] 9th century. All three Epistles.
[637] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at...
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ΈΓΝΏΚΑΜΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097)
знать (_см._ 1 John 3:6).
ΈΘΗΚΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G5087)
помещать. Используется в семитском
значении: "отдавать жизнь за" (Marshall;
Brooke;...
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DISCOURSE: 2448
THE LOVE OF CHRIST A PATTERN FOR US, TO EACH OTHER
1 John 3:16. _Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down
his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the b...
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HEREBY PERCEIVE WE THE LOVE OF GOD,— This text, as it stands in our
version, has generally been mentioned as equivalent to Acts 20:28. In
which, as he who laid down his life for us, _is God_ as well _...
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CHAPTER X
_DIVINE SONSHIP PROVEN BY ACTIVE LOVE_
(The Second Test. The Second Time)
1 John 3:11-24
A.
_The Text_
For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we
should love one...
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VERSE 16. HEREBY PERCEIVE WE THE LOVE OF GOD.
Christ, by the appointment of God, showed his love when he laid down
his life on the cross. Having his example before us for our guidance,
should occasio...
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8 The title..Adversary" has far more aptness than is at first
apparent. Satan is known to us only through his word He never appears
otherwise than as the evil creature indicated by his titles. From hi...
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3:16 known (g-4) Perfect tense, as ch. 2.3....
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THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD AND THE DUTIES AND PRIVILEGES OF SONSHIP
1. The sons of God] RV 'children of God,' adding the words, 'and
_such_ we are.' The word translated 'children' here is characteristi...
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HEREBY PERCEIVE WE THE LOVE _of God_] RV 'hereby know we love,' i.e.
what love is.
HE.. WE] The pronouns are emphatic....
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HOW CAN I BE SURE?
1 JOHN
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 3
THE CHILDREN OF GOD DO THE RIGHT THINGS (1 JOHN 3:1-10)
V1 See what great love the *Father has given to us! He has called us
children of God....
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(4) BROTHERLY LOVE THE NECESSARY FLOWER OF THE DIVINE LOVE IN THE
DIVINE BIRTH (1 John 3:11). — In 1 John 2:10 St. John showed the
necessary connection between righteousness and love; there is no
cont...
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CHAPTER 13
LOFTY IDEALS PERILOUS UNLESS APPLIED
1 John 3:16
Even the world sees that the Incarnation of Jesus Christ has very
practical results. Even the Christmas which the world keeps is
fruitful...
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τὴν ἀγάπην, “the thing called ‘love' ”. The love of
God in Christ Jesus our Lord is the perfect type. Till the world saw
that, it never knew what love is. ἐκεῖνος, Christ; see note
on 1 John 2:6. ἡμεῖ...
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The Secret of Assurance. “Wonder not, brethren, if the world hateth
you. _We_ know that we have migrated out of the domain of death into
the domain of life, because we love the brethren. He that lovet...
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LOVING IN DEED AND IN TRUTH
1 John 3:13
Love to the brethren is a sign that we have been born into the family.
We may not _like_ them all, yet we can _love_ them. If we love, we
live; and if we live...
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The letter now passed to a discussion of the fellowship of the saints
with God as love. The hope born of love will have as its inevitable
result the purification of those possessing it. The apostle sh...
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THE DANGER OF HATRED
So, it should come as no surprise when the world hates us when we do
things pleasing to God (John 15:18-20). Good works expose evil works
and their reward stirs envy in the hearts...
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(16) Hereby perceive we the love [of God], because he laid down his
life for us: and we ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren.
(16) Now he shows how far Christian charity extends, even so fa...
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_The charity of God, [2] because he hath laid down his life for us.
Jesus Christ, therefore, who laid down his life for us, was God. It is
true at present the words of God are wanting in most Greek
ma...
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Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. (14) We know that we
have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He
that loveth not his brother abideth in death. (15) Whosoever hat...
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_THE LOVE OF GOD IN CHRIST_
‘Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life
for us.’
1 John 3:16
We forget the sordid details, the anguish of the mother, the
disappointment of th...
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_THE CROSS AND SUFFERING_
‘Hereby know we love, because He laid down His life for us: and we
ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.’
1 John 3:16 (R.V.)
‘Hereby know we love’—hereby, by the C...
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16_Hereby perceive we_, or, _By this we know_. He now shews what true
love is; for it would not have been enough to commend it, unless its
power is understood. As an instance of perfect love, he sets...
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Now to say that we are born of Him is to say that we are children of
God. [13] What a love is that which the Father has bestowed on us,
that we should be called children! [14] Therefore the world know...
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HEREBY PERCEIVE WE THE LOVE [OF GOD],.... The phrase "of God" is not
in the Oriental versions, nor in the Greek copies, but is in the
Complutensian edition, and in the Vulgate Latin version, and is
fa...
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Hereby perceive we the love _of God_, because he laid down his life
for us: and we ought to lay down _our_ lives for the brethren.
Ver. 16. _Because he laid down_] _See Trapp on "_ Joh 15:13 _"_ _See...
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_Hereby perceive we the love of God_ The word _God_ is not in the
original: it seems to be omitted by the apostle just as the name of
_Jesus_ is omitted by Mary, when she says to the gardener _Sir, if...
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HEREBY PERCEIVE WE THE LOVE OF GOD; the words "of God" are not in the
original. The literal rendering is, "Herein"-by the example that
follows-"we know love," we see and understand its true nature.
H...
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True brotherly love:...
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HEREBY PERCEIVE WE THE LOVE OF GOD, BECAUSE HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR
US; AND WE OUGHT TO LAY DOWN OUR LIVES FOR THE BRETHREN....
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This chapter continues the subject introduced in ch.2:28. Verse 29 has
shown that righteousness is an absolute requirement. It is indeed a
solid, sound basis for the precious bestowal of the love of t...
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16-21 Here is the condescension, the miracle, the mystery of Divine
love, that God would redeem the church with his own blood. Surely we
should love those whom God has loved, and so loved. The Holy S...
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HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR US: the intimate union between the Divine
nature and the human in Christ, gives ground for the calling Christ's
life as man the life of God; as, ACTS 20:28, his blood is said...
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Tertullian Scorpiace
John, in fact, exhorts us to lay down our lives even for our
brethren,[81]
Tertullian De Fuga in Persecutione
too, that ye may be able to quench the darts of the devil, when
do...
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1 John 3:16 By G1722 this G5129 know G1097 (G5758) love G26 because
G3754 He G1565 down G5087 ...
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EXHORTATION THAT OUR CHRISTIAN LOVE SHOULD BE PRACTICAL (1 JOHN 3:16).
As throughout John is now concerned that those he speaks to should
examine their hearts to ensure that they really are true Chris...
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‘By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we
ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.'
He now draws attention to what that love must be like. It is a love
known through exp...
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THE CENTRALITY OF CHRISTIAN LOVE (1 JOHN 3:11 TO 1 JOHN 4:21).
The reference to loving one's brother, deliberately added almost as an
appendage in 1 John 3:10 in order to introduce the next section, n...
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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...
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1 John 3:16-18. Nothing in the whole Epistle is more impressive or
more affecting than the point of juncture in the following words.
Against the hate and the murder is set the supreme example of
self-...
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KNOW WE
(εγνωκαμεν). Perfect active indicative, "we have come to know
and still know." See 1 John 2:3 for "hereby" (εν τουτω).LOVE
(την αγαπην). "The thing called love" (D. Smith).HE FOR US
(εκε...
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1 John 3:10. In this the children of God are manifest and the children
of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither
he that loveth not his brother. For this is the message th...
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1 John 3:1. _Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon
us, that we should be called the sons of God:_
Behold it, wonder at it, and never cease to admire it. Is it not one
of the great...
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1 John 3:1. _Behold,_
For there is no greater wonder out of heaven than this: «Behold,»
1 John 3:1. _What manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us,
that we should be called the sons of God: t...
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I have read this chapter many times in your hearing, but we cannot
read it too often, for it is full of the deepest and most important
instruction. God grant that fresh light from above may shine upon...
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CONTENTS: God's love magnified and the believer exhorted to holiness.
Brotherly love urged. How our hearts may be assured before God.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Satan, Cain, John.
CONCLUSION: It is a w...
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1 John 3:1. _That we should be called the sons of God!_ The character
of the favoured race is defined in the preseding verses: they keep the
commandments of God: 1 John 3:3. They abide in Christ by wo...
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WHAT LOVE IS. "Christ _acted out_ this LOVE by giving his life for us.
Rather than hating and destroying our brother, we ought to have the
spirit of Christ and lay down our lives for our brothers, whe...
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_Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for
us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren, _
LOFTY IDEALS PERILOUS UNLESS APPLIED
Even the world sees that the In...
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1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 3:16 BY THIS WE KNOW LOVE, THAT HE LAID DOWN
HIS LIFE FOR US. Jesus’ willingness to die is an example of the
selfless attitude his followers should have....
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_Hereby we know the love of God, because He laid down His life for us:
and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren_. S. John here
goes back to the law and living pattern of perfect charity, ev...
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CHAPTER 3 VER. 1. _Behold what great love the Father hath bestowed on
us_ (unworthy, enemies and sinners as we are), _that we should be
called, and be the sons of God._ Love, actively, His wondrous lo...
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
1 John 3:13. WORLD HATE YON.—The “world” includes all who are
not actuated by the supreme motive, love to God. For “hate” read
“hateth” (John 15:18).
1 John 3:14. FROM...
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EXPOSITION
1 JOHN 3:1 TO 1 JOHN 5:12
3. SECOND MAIN DIVISION. _God is Love._
1 JOHN 3:1
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Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us, that we
should be called the sons of God (1 John 3:1):
I love that verse. Behold, what manner of love God has bestowed upon
you, that you sh...
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1 John 2:6; 1 John 4:10; 1 John 4:11; 1 John 4:9; 1 Peter 1:18;...
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Hereby [ε ν τ ο ι τ ω]. See on 2 3.
Perceive [ε γ ν ω κ α μ ε ν]. Rev., correctly, know.
The love. Omit the italics of A. V., of God, and render as Rev.,
hereby know we love.
Laid down His life [τ...
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CHILDREN OF GOD
1 John 3:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
What a wonderful truth is this: "Now are we the sons of God." What! We
who were once children of darkness, are now the children of light; we
who were c...
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The word God is not in the original. It was omitted by the apostle
just as the particular name is omitted by Mary, when she says to the
gardener, "Sir, if thou hast borne him hence;" and by the church...
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Here our apostle presses brotherly love from another argument, namely,
from the example of Jesus Christ, who being God, as well as man, laid
down his life, AS MAN, for us.
Where note, That the intimat...