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1 John 2:4
He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
1 JOHN 2:4 h` avlh,qeia {A} Instead of “the truth,” several witnesses (Y 436 945 1505 _al_) weaken the statement by reading “truth”; on the other hand, a and a few other witnesses strengthen it by e...
Verse 1 John 2:4. _HE THAT SAITH, I KNOW HIM_] This is a severe blow against those false teachers, and against all pretenders to religious knowledge, who live under the power of their sins; and agains...
HE THAT SAITH, I KNOW HIM - He who professes to be acquainted with the Saviour, or who professes to be a Christian. AND KEEPETH NOT HIS COMMANDMENTS - What he has appointed to be observed by his peop...
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...
HEREBY WE KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM. What we need is knowledge. It is very, unsatisfactory to only think that Christ is the Son of God and our Savior. We want to _know_ upon whom we have believed. To _kn...
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)...
TRUTH. See 1 John 1:6....
The previous statement is enforced by denying the opposite of it. The construction, -he that saith," -he that loveth," &c. now takes the place of -if we say," -if we walk," &c., but without change of...
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 2:28. 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
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...
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...
4. Before ἜΓΝΩΚΑ insert ὍΤΙ with [452][453][454] against [455][456][457]. [458] omits ἘΝ ΤΟΎΤΩΙ before Ἡ� and inserts τοῦ θεοῦ after it. [452] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the mon...
ΛΈΓΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить. Subst. part., подчеркивает характерную черту. Переход _от pl._ к _sing._ обозначает, что принцип применяется и проверяется на жизни отбельно взятого...
DISCOURSE: 2434 THE TRUE TEST OF LOVE TO GOD 1 John 2:3. _Hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and...
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, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. I KNOW - `I have knowledge of (perfect) Him' (cf. )....
VERSE 4. HE THAT SAITH, I KNOW HIM, AND KEEPETH NOT. Any one who asserts that he knows God, and does not keep his commandments, John says of such an one two things: 1. He is a liar. 2. The truth is no...
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...
μὴ τηρῶν, in classical Greek a gentle hypothesis, merely suggesting a possible case; but in later Greek μή is the regular negative with participles. It was an actual error, else the Apostle would hard...
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...
(3) He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. (3) Holiness, that is, a life ordered according to the prescript of God's commandments, howeve...
_He that says he knoweth him, &c. To know, in this and many other places, is not taken for a speculative knowledge alone, but is joined with a love of God, and an earnest desire of serving him and kee...
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...
4_He that saith, I know him _How does he prove that they are liars who boast that they have faith without piety? even by the contrary effect; for he has already said, that the knowledge of God is effi...
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 I KNOW HIM,.... God or Christ, as the Gnostics did, who pretended to great, even perfect, knowledge of divine things: AND KEEPETH NOT HIS COMMANDMENTS; which the above persons had no re...
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. Ver. 4. _He that saith, I know him_] Here he disputeth against Verbalists and Solifidians. SeeJame...
_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...
“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...
A LIAR; a false, hypocritical pretender, as 1 JOHN 1:6....
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Nos enim didicimus libertatem, qua Dominus noster nos liberat a voluptatibus, eta cupiditatibus, et aliis perturbationibus solvens. "Qui dicit: Novi Dominum, e...
1 John 2:4 says G3004 (G5723) know G1097 (G5758) Him G846 and G2532 not G3361 keep G5083 ...
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...
1 John 2:4. HENCE HE THAT SAITH, I KNOW HIM the ‘we' has become ‘he,' according to St. John's habit of changing the phrase and making its force more keen and direct, AND KEEPETH NOT HIS COMMANDMENTS,...
_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...
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...
I KNOW HIM (Εγνωκα αυτον). Perfect active indicative with recitative οτ like quotation marks just before it. This is one of the pious platitudes, cheap claptrap of the Gnostics, who would bob up in...
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...
IF SOMEONE SAYS. Talk is cheap! Actions really show what a person does _in fact_ believe! The one who claims to know God, but does not obey God's commands, proves both that he is a liar and that he do...
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 knoweth Him_, that is, with true and saving knowledge, such as leads to eternal life, _and keepeth not His commandments is a liar._ As the Apostle said (Rom 1:21) of the philosophers...
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 John 1:10; 1 John 1:6; 1 John 1:8; 1 John 2:9; 1 John 4:20;...
A liar. Compare we lie, 1 John 1:6. In him [ε ν τ ο υ τ ω]. Emphatic. Lit., in this one the truth is not. See on 1 8. Keepeth His word [τ η ρ η α υ τ ο υ τ ο ν λ ο γ ο ν]. Note the changed phrase : wo...