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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

1 John 5 - Introduction

* Brotherly love is the effect of the new birth, which makes obedience to all God's commandments pleasant. (1-5) Reference to witnesses agreeing to prove that Jesus, the Son of God, is the true Messiah. (6-8) The satisfaction the believer has about Christ, and eternal life through him. (9-12) The assurance of God's hearing and answering prayer. (13-17) The happy condition of true believers, and a charge to renounce all idolatry. (18-21)

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See also 1 John 5 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    This chapter embraces the following subjects: I. A continuance of the discussion about “love,” 1 John 5:1. These verses should have been attached to the previous chapter. II. The victory which is ac...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The chapter falls into two parts. The first twelve verses form the last section of the second main division of the Epistle, God is Love (1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12): the last nine verses form the conc...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _HE THAT LOVETH GOD, LOVETH HIS CHILDREN, AND KEEPETH HIS COMMANDMENTS, WHICH TO THE FAITHFUL ARE LIGHT, AND NOT GRIEVOUS. JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, ABLE TO SAVE US, AND TO HEAR OUR PRAYERS, WHICH WE M...

  • Commentary on the Minor Epistles by Caton

    ANALYSIS. Reasoning further on the last idea in the former chapter, it must be plain to you, that in believing that Jesus is the Christ, you are thereby begotten of God, and in that case, if you love...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:2 report (b-15) which (c-21) _ Hostis_ . as Matthew 7:24 . The character, not merely the statement of the fact, 'which was such a one as that.'...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO 1 JOHN 5 In this chapter the apostle treats of the nature of faith and love; of Christ the object of both, and of the witness that is bore to him; of the necessity of believing the te...

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