Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
1 John 5:7
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one.
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one.
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Verse 7. _THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR RECORD_] The FATHER, who bears testimony to his Son; the WORD or λογος, _Logos_, who bears testimony to the Father; and the HOLY GHOST, which bears testimony to the...
FOR THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR RECORD IN HEAVEN ... - There are three that “witness,” or that “bear witness” - the same Greek word which, in 1 John 5:8, is rendered “bear witness” - μαρτυροῦντες martu...
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...
Reference to the faith held by the Church concerning Christ leads John to specify in symbolic terms what that faith was and the witness by which it was sustained. The truth belongs to the sphere of re...
LOVE WITHIN THE DIVINE FAMILY (1 John 5:1-2)...
This is he who came through water and blood--Jesus Christ. It was not only by water that he came, but by water and by blood. And it is the Spirit which testifies to this, because the Spirit is truth;...
BEAR RECORD. bear witness, as in 1 John 5:6. IN HEAVEN, &C. The texts read, "the Spirit, and the water", &c, omitting all the words from "in heaven" to "in earth" (1 John 5:8) inclusive. The words are...
Faith is the Source of Love, the Victory over the World and the Possession of Life 1. _Whosoever believeth_ Or, _Every one that believeth_: the construction is identical with that in 1Jn 2:29, 1 John...
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...
_For there are three that bear record in heaven_ If there is one thing that is certain in textual criticism, it is that this famous passage is not genuine. The Revisers have only performed an imperati...
7. For the notorious interpolation here see Appendix D. The disputed words (ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ ὁ πατὴρ ὁ λόγος καὶ τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα· καὶ οὖτοι οἱ τρεῖς ἕν εἰσι. καὶ τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες ἐν τῇ γῇ) are...
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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DISCOURSE: 2465 THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY VINDICATED 1 John 5:7. _There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one_ [Note: Any one who sh...
FOR THERE ARE THREE, &C.— "For there are three divine Persons, the habitation of whose glory is in heaven, who from thence bear their united testimony to the incarnate Saviour. The _first_ is God the...
CHAPTER XV _FAITHTHE POWER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS_ 1 John 5:4-12 A. _The Text_ For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our fait...
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. THREE. Two or three witnesses were required by law to constitute adequate testimon...
VERSE 7. FOR THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR RECORD IN HEAVEN. This verse is omitted in the Revised Version, by Rotherham, and by the Syriac. Dr. Macknight contends for its authenticity, and after a long ci...
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...
5:7 three. (b-7) What is omitted here has no real manuscript authority....
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...
V. (8.) FAITH THE TEST OF LOVE (1 John 5:1). (_a_) _Its power_ (1 John 5:1). (_b_) _The evidence on which it rests_ (1 John 5:6). (_c_) _What it contains_ ...
CHAPTER 16 THE GOSPEL AS A GOSPEL OF WITNESS; THE THREE WITNESSES 1 John 5:6 IT has been said that Apostles and apostolic men were as far as possible removed from common sense, and have no conceptio...
The Threefold Testimony to the Incarnation. “This is He that came through water and blood, Jesus Christ; not in the water only, but in the water and in the blood. And it is the Spirit that testifieth,...
The Water (the Lord's consecrated Life) and the Blood (His sacrificial Death) are testimonies to the Incarnation, but they are insufficient. A third testimony, that of the Spirit, is needed to reveal...
THE VICTORIOUS LIFE 1 John 5:1 The “begotten” children of God are constantly referred to in this Epistle. The word indicates the communication, in regeneration, of the divine nature, of which the fi...
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...
WITNESSES TO JESUS' SONSHIP The Gnostics taught that Jesus was a man, and Christ, the Deity, came upon Him at baptism and left Him before the crucifixion. John says Jesus was the same both in the wate...
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the (h) Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are (i) one. (h) See (John 8:13) (i) Agree in one....
There are three that give testimony in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one: i.e. one in nature, in substance, and in all perfections, in the same sense as when Ch...
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. We have here a most blessed scripture, and which, from its vast importance, merits o...
7._There are three than bear record in heaven _The whole of this verse has been by some omitted. Jerome thinks that this has happened through design rather than through mistake, and that indeed only o...
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...
FOR THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR RECORD IN HEAVEN,.... That is, that Jesus is the Son of God. The genuineness of this text has been called in question by some, because it is wanting in the Syriac version...
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. Ver. 7. _Three that bear record_] viz. That Jesus Christ is the Son of God. These th...
_For there are three_, &c. It is well known that the authenticity of this verse has been a subject of much controversy. “The arguments, on both sides of the question, taken from ancient Greek MSS. and...
“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...
6-8 We are inwardly and outwardly defiled; inwardly, by the power and pollution of sin in our nature. For our cleansing there is in and by Christ Jesus, the washing of regeneration and the renewing o...
Having mentioned the Spirit's testifying in the close of 1 JOHN 5:6, he returns to give us in order, in these two verses, the whole testimony of the truth of Christianity, which he reduces to two tern...
Cyprian Treatise I On the Unity of the Church and again it is written of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, "And these three are one."[22]...
1 John 5:7 For G3754 are G1526 (G5748) three G5140 witness G3140 (G5723) in G1722 heaven G3772 Father...
THROUGH THE COMING OF JESUS GOD'S SON, WHICH WAS WELL TESTIFIED TO, WE CAN KNOW THAT WE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE (1 JOHN 5:6). ‘This is he who came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ, not with the water o...
1 John 5:7-8. FOR THERE ARE THREE WHO BEAR WITNESS [IN HEAVEN, THE FATHER, THE WORD, AND THE HOLY GHOST: AND THESE THREE ARE ONE. AND THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR WITNESS ON EARTH], THE SPIRIT, AND THE W...
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...
FOR THERE ARE THREE WHO BEAR WITNESS (οτ τρεις εισιν ο μαρτυρουντες). At this point the Latin Vulgate gives the words in the Textus Receptus, found in no Greek MS. save two late cursives (162 in the...
It is generally agreed that (1 John 5:7) has no real authority, and has been inserted....
1 John 5:6 The Spirit, the Water, and the Blood. I. Consider the testimony of the water. I believe that the reference here is exclusively to baptism the baptism of Jesus Himself, and probably also th...
1 John 5:6 The Witness of Christ. "Witness!" The word in its emphatic recurrence is typical of the situation out of which the Epistle springs. The special perils and anxieties with which the Church i...
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...
THERE ARE THREE WITNESSES. Two witnesses would establish the truth. John says there are three!!! [A footnote in the NIV says; "Late MSS of the Vulgate add _in heaven; the Father, the Word and the Holy...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:1 Faith in the Son as the Way to Life. So far, John has written much about love and obedience, but not so much about faith. He now shifts to the importance of believing in the...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:7 The gospel is not based merely on human testimony. There are in fact THREE THAT TESTIFY. These are the witness of the SPIRIT (see note on v. 6), the...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 5:4. OVERCOMETH THE WORLD.—The world is regarded as the sphere of the self-seeking principle. He who is born of God is born into another sphere—the sphere of the...
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 Corinthians 12:4; 1 John 1:1; 1 John 5:10; 1 John 5:11; 1 John 5:6;...
There are three that bear record [τ ρ ε ι ς ε ι σ ι ν ο ι μ α ρ τ υ ρ ο υ ν τ ε ς]. Lit., three are the witnessing ones. The Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. These words...
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...
What Bengelius has advanced, both concerning the transposition of these two verses, and the authority of the controverted verse, partly in his "Gnomon," and partly in his "Apparatus Criticus," will ab...
Why is this verse on the Trinity missing in many modern translations? PROBLEM: John declares that “there are three who bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these thr...
That is, "There are three in heaven which do bear record to this truth here upon earth, namely, that Jesus IS THE CHRIST; that is to say, the three persons in the Holy Trinity, THE FATHER, THE WORD, A...