1 John 4:1-3
THE ATTITUDE OF CHRISTIANS TOWARD FALSE TEACHERS AND TOWARD ONE ANOTHER. The false prophets:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ATTITUDE OF CHRISTIANS TOWARD FALSE TEACHERS AND TOWARD ONE ANOTHER. The false prophets:... [ Continue Reading ]
BELOVED, BELIEVE NOT EVERY SPIRIT, BUT TRY THE SPIRITS WHETHER THEY ARE OF GOD; BECAUSE MANY FALSE PROPHETS ARE GONE OUT INTO THE WORLD.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEREBY KNOW YE THE SPIRIT OF GOD: EVERY SPIRIT THAT CONFESSETH THAT JESUS CHRIST IS COME IN THE FLESH IS OF GOD;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND EVERY SPIRIT THAT CONFESSETH NOT THAT JESUS CHRIST IS COME IN THE FLESH IS NOT OF GOD; AND THIS IS THAT SPIRIT OF ANTI-CHRIST, WHEREOF YE HAVE HEARD THAT IT SHOULD COME, AND EVEN NOW ALREADY IS IT IN THE WORLD. Having emphasized the righteousness of life and the need of brotherly love, the apost... [ Continue Reading ]
YE ARE OF GOD, LITTLE CHILDREN, AND HAVE OVERCOME THEM; BECAUSE GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD.... [ Continue Reading ]
The distinction between the spirit of truth and the spirit of error:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY ARE OF THE WORLD; THEREFORE SPEAK THEY OF THE WORLD, AND THE WORLD HEARETH THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
WE ARE OF GOD; HE THAT KNOWETH GOD HEARETH US; HE THAT IS NOT OF GOD HEARETH NOT US. HEREBY KNOW WE THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH AND THE SPIRIT OF ERROR. The spirit which the apostle has above called the spirit of Anti-Christ is here identified with the spirit of this world, with the spirit that works in the... [ Continue Reading ]
BELOVED, LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER; FOR LOVE IS OF GOD, AND EVERY ONE THAT LOVETH IS BORN OF GOD AND KNOWETH GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
The greatness of God's love:... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT LOVETH NOT KNOWETH NOT GOD; FOR GOD IS LOVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEREIN IS LOVE, NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD, BUT THAT HE LOVED US AND SENT HIS SON TO BE THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS. THIS PARAGRAPH IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND, AT THE SAME TIME, ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL PASSAGES IN THE ENTIRE NEW TESTAMENT. It opens with an affectionate appeal: Beloved, let us lo... [ Continue Reading ]
BELOVED, IF GOD SO LOVED US, WE OUGHT ALSO TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
Dwelling in God and in His love:... [ Continue Reading ]
NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME. IF WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER, GOD DWELLETH, IN US, AND HIS LOVE IS PERFECTED IN US.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEREBY KNOW WE THAT WE DWELL IN HIM, AND HE IN US, BECAUSE HE HATH GIVEN US OF HIS SPIRIT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WE HAVE SEEN AND DO TESTIFY THAT THE FATHER SENT THE SON TO BE THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, GOD DWELLETH IN HIM AND HE IN GOD__... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WE HAVE KNOWN AND BELIEVED THE LOVE THAT GOD HATH TO US. THE LOVE WHICH GOD SHOWED TO US IN CHRIST IS THE ETERNAL TYPE AND PATTERN OF PERFECT LOVE. For that reason St. John asks us to become imitators of it: Beloved, if thus. God loved us, we also ought to love one another. If thus, if so great... [ Continue Reading ]
Perfection in brotherly love:... [ Continue Reading ]
HEREIN IS OUR LOVE MADE PERFECT, THAT WE MAY HAVE BOLDNESS IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT; BECAUSE AS HE IS, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE, BUT PERFECT LOVE CASTETH OUT FEAR; BECAUSE FEAR HATH TORMENT. HE THAT FEARETH IS NOT MADE PERFECT IN LOVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF A MAN SAY, I LOVE GOD, AND HATETH HIS BROTHER, HE IS A LIAR; FOR HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS BROTHER WHOM HE HATH SEEN, HOW CAN BE LOVE GOD WHOM HE HATH NOT SEEN?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THIS COMMANDMENT HAVE WE FROM HIM, THAT HE WHO LOVETH GOD LOVE HIS BROTHER ALSO. Love is the theme of practically the entire letter, but it stands out with peculiar force in this paragraph. John again holds before our eyes the strongest motive of brotherly love: God is Love, and he that remains... [ Continue Reading ]