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1 John 5:18
We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that "Wicked One toucheth him not.
We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that "Wicked One toucheth him not.
1 JOHN 5:18 o` gennhqei.j evk {A} The ambiguity of reference intended by the words o` gennhqei.j evk tou/ qeou/ (a reading strongly attested by witnesses of all textual types) prompted copyists to in...
Verse 18. _WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD SINNETH NOT_] This is spoken of adult Christians; _they_ are _cleansed from all_ _unrighteousness_, consequently from all _sin_, 1 John 1:7. _KEEPETH HIMSELF_] Th...
WE KNOW THAT WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD SINNETH NOT - Is not habitually and characteristically a sinner; does not ultimately and finally sin and perish; cannot, therefore, commit the unpardonable sin. T...
VI. CONCLUSION CHAPTER 5:14-21 The conclusion of this great Epistle mentions first the practical confidence which a believer may have, the outcome of that relationship and fellowship with the Father...
CONCLUSION. A reminder of the writer's purpose, an assertion of the value and also the limitations of intercessory prayer, and a summary of the teaching of the epistle. 1 JOHN 5:13. THAT. LIFE: John...
We know that he who has received his birth from God does not sin, but he whose birth was from God keeps him, and the Evil One does not touch him. We know that it is from God that we draw our being, a...
LOVE WITHIN THE DIVINE FAMILY (1 John 5:1-2)...
SINNETH NOT. i.e. does not practise, or continue in sin. Compare 1Jn 3:6, 1 John 3:9; Romans 6:1. App-128. HE THAT, &C. This refers to the Lord. As the Jehovah of the O.T. He was the keeper of Israel...
The Sum of the Christian's Knowledge 18 20. The Epistle now draws rapidly to a close. Having briefly, yet with much new material, retouched some of the leading ideas of the Epistle, eternal life, fait...
Conclusion and Summary Some modern writers consider that 1 John 5:13 constitutes the conclusion of the Epistle, the remainder (14 21) being a postscript or appendix, analogous to chap. 21. of the Gos...
_We know_ This confident expression of the certitude of Christian faith stands at the beginning of each of these three verses and is the link which binds them together. We have had it twice before (1J...
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13–21. CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY Some modern writers consider that 1 John 5:13 constitutes the conclusion of the Epistle, the remainder (14–21) being a postscript or appendix, analogous to chap. 21 of t...
18–20. THE SUM OF THE CHRISTIAN’S KNOWLEDGE 18–20. The Epistle now draws rapidly to a close. Having briefly, yet with much new material, retouched some of the leading ideas of the Epistle, eternal lif...
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WE KNOW THAT WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD, &C.— "We, who have received Christ, and enjoy his gracious presence, are well assured, both from the word of God and from the indwelling of the Holy Ghost in our...
CHAPTER XVI _HEREBY WE KNOW_ 1 John 5:13-21 A. _The text_ These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God...
We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. (See 1 John 3:9.) WE KNOW. Thrice repeated (1 John 5:19), t...
VERSE 18. WE KNOW THAT WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD. One born of God sinneth not; that is, does not sin habitually, does not live a life of sin. He will not sin the sin which is unto death because overta...
6 It is a remarkable fact that the word _ testify _ is used concerning the Lord's baptism in water (Joh_1:34), and concerning His crucifixion (Joh_19:35), and here again of the spirit (6). This is con...
5:18 one (f-5) As 'whoever,' ch. 3.6. begotten (g-17) Or 'is born,' as chs. 3.9; 4.7; 5.1,4,...
HE THAT IS BEGOTTEN OF GOD KEEPETH HIMSELF] RV 'he that was begotten of God (i.e. Christ) keepeth him.' 21. Taken comprehensively, this warning is directed against all that takes the place of God in...
THE LOVE, OBEDIENCE, AND ASSURANCE OF BELIEVERS 1. The reason for brotherly love. 2. This is the converse of 1 John 4:19. Love to God and love to the brethren being inseparable, each is the test of...
HOW CAN I BE SURE? 1 JOHN _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 5 *FAITH OVERCOMES THE *WORLD (1 JOHN 5:1-5) V1 Jesus is the *Christ. Everyone who believes this has been born of God. Everyone who loves the fa...
(3) SOME PRACTICAL POINTS RECAPITULATED (1 John 5:18). (_a_) _God’s sons do not sin_ (1 John 5:18). St. John refers back to “that ye may know” in 1 John 5:13, and sums up three points from former po...
CHAPTER 4 THE IMAGE OF ST. JOHN'S SOUL IN HIS EPISTLE 1 John 5:18 Much has been said in the last few years of a series of subtle and delicate experiments in sound. Means have been devised of doing f...
The Certainties of Christian Faith. St. John has been speaking of a dark mystery, and now he turns from it: “Do not brood over it. Think rather of the splendid certainties and rejoice in them.”...
Our Security through the Guardianship of Christ. οὐχ ἁμαρτάνει, see note on 1 John 3:6. The child of God may fall into sin, but he does not continue in it; he is not under its dominion. Why? Because,...
The Epistle is finished, and the Apostle now speaks his closing words. “These things I wrote to you that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even to you that believe in the name of the Son of God....
ASK ACCORDING TO HIS WILL 1 John 5:13 We know that we have eternal life. The rope is in our hand bearing us onward, but its ends are hidden from view in the past and in the future. We also know that...
The final subject is our fellowship with God in life. This is fundamental, and is shown to be so. The relationship between the life of God and the love of God is self-evident, and that is equally true...
"SIN LEADING TO DEATH" John next wrote about a "sin leading to death." Several other passages in scripture appear to speak of that sin (Hebrews 6:4-6; Hebrews 10:26-27; 2 Peter 2:20-22;...
(17) We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. (17) A reason why not all, or rather why no sin is mortal...
_Sinneth not. See the annotation on chap. iii. 6. &c. (Challoner) --- The generation [5] of God preserveth him, (i.e. the grace of adoption, as long as it remains in the soul; see Chap. iii. 9.) and t...
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us: (15) And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petition...
18_We know that whosoever is born of God _If you suppose that God’s children are wholly _pure _and free from all sin, as the fanatics contend, then the Apostle is inconsistent with himself; for he wou...
But a danger exists on the other side. It may be, that we love the brethren because they are pleasant to us; they furnish us with agreeable society, in which our conscience is not wounded. A counter-p...
WE KNOW THAT WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD,.... Who is regenerated by his Spirit and grace, and quickened by his power; who has Christ formed in him, and is made a partaker of the divine nature, and has ev...
We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. Ver. 18. _Sinneth not_] _sc._ That sin to death, 1 John 5:16,...
_We know_, &c. As if he had said, Yet this gives no encouragement to sin. On the contrary, it is an indisputable truth, _that whosoever is born of God_ That is, regenerated and made a new creature; se...
SINNETH NOT; willfully, deliberately, perseveringly; but if he sin, he repents, has an Advocate with the Father, and will be forgiven. See note to chap 1 John 3:6-10. THAT WICKED ONE; the devil. TOUC...
“Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and everyone that loveth Him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of Him.” The faith that Jesus is the Christ is here seen to corre...
18-21 All mankind are divided into two parties or dominions; that which belongs to God, and that which belongs to the wicked one. True believers belong to God: they are of God, and from him, and to h...
The great advantage is here signified of the regenerate, who, by the seed remaining in them, _\as 1 JOHN 3:9\_ are furnished with a self-preserving principle, with the exercise whereof they may expect...
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CONCLUSION (1 JOHN 5:14). John concludes his letter with four major points. 1) The certainty that Christians can have of victory through prayer. In the face of all that confronts them they can be bo...
THEY ARE TO LOOK TO THE ONE WHO HAS BEGOTTEN THEM TO ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST AND KEEP THEMSELVES FROM SIN AND FROM THE WORLD (1 JOHN 5:18). ‘We know that whoever is begotten of God does not...
The Epistle winds up with three summarizing declarations, each of which repeats the watchword, ‘we know,' taken, but in a better sense, from the Gnostic ‘we know:' the first, 1 John 5:18, asserts the...
WE KNOW (οιδαμεν). As in 1 John 3:2; 1 John 3:14; 1 John 5:15; 1 John 5:19;...
1 John 5:18 Infirmity of Faith: its Cause and Remedy. I. If all the Christian people about us had a clear vision of God's face, if they distinctly heard God's voice, if they lived and moved and had t...
1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God._ Take comfort, believer, from that declaration. You have accepted Jesus as the Christ the anointed of God, so the apostle aff...
1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God:_ These are very simple words, but they contain a great depth of meaning. The teaching conveyed by this Epistle is very profou...
CONTENTS: Faith the overcoming principle. The advantages of faith in salvation, prayer, preservation from sin. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Satan, John. CONCLUSION: He who has been born agai...
1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God._ The faith which embraces him as the Lord of glory, has a regenerating influence on the heart. The immediate fruit is love to...
WE KNOW. "The child of God may fall into sin, but he does not keep on sinning! Sin has no power over him! Why??? Because the Son of God keeps him safe from the Evil One!!!" _See Psalms 105._ But our s...
_We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not _ THREE VIEWS OF THE TRULY REGENERATE MAN 1_._ He “sinneth n...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:18 DOES NOT KEEP ON SINNING. See notes on 3:6–7; 3:9–10. HE WHO WAS BORN OF GOD refers to Jesus Christ. In his physical bir
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:13 Final Call to Faith and Understanding. “Know” occurs seven times in these verses. This indicates John’s focus on the assurance of Christian faith and salvation....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 5:13 may be treated as a summary and conclusion. They divide into three parts: 1. Faith in the Son of God, eternal life, and love of the brethren showing itsel...
EXPOSITION 1 JOHN 5:1 Faith is the source of love. 1 JOHN 5:1 The verse is a sorites. To believe in the Incarnation involves birth from God. To be born of God involves loving God. To love God invol...
Chuck Smith Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him (1 John 5:1). So I say, "I love Jesus. He is...
1 John 2:13; 1 John 2:14; 1 John 2:29; 1 John 3:12; 1 John 3:3;...
We know [ο ι δ α μ ε ν]. John uses this appeal to knowledge in two forms : we know (2 Timothy 2:14; 1 John 5:18; 1 John 5:19; 1 John 5:20); ye know (ii. 20;...
SALVATION MADE SURE 1 John 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Taking stock is a very important thing with the business man. Laying a good foundation is a very important task with the builder, Feeling the. pulse...
SOME THINGS WE MAY KNOW 1 John 5:1, _1 John 5:11_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS There may be some places where uncertainties lend enchantment to the view, but in matters of life and death we want full assuranc...
Yet this gives us no encouragement to sin: on the contrary, it is an indisputable truth, he that is born of God — That sees and loves God. Sinneth not — So long as that loving faith abides in him, he...
Can Satan injure God’s children or not? PROBLEM: Even Jesus admitted to Peter, “Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat” (Luke 22:31). However, John insists here that “he who has been...
That is, we are all well assured that sincere Christians, who are begotten and born of God, do not commit this sin unto death, namely, apostacy from Christianity to the Heathen idolatry: BUT HE KEEPET...