The purpose. "Love is an official heavenly visitor who stays with us and claims our loyalty. Love has been made perfect in us' when we are facsimiles of Jesus - His visible portrait!" Compare Matthew 5:16; Galatians 2:20.
Verse 17. _HEREIN IS OUR LOVE MADE PERFECT_] By God dwelling in us, and we in him; having cast out all the carnal mind that was _enmity_ against himself, and filled the whole heart with the spirit of...
HEREIN IS OUR LOVE MADE PERFECT - Margin, “love with us.” The margin accords with the Greek - μεθ ̓ ἡμῶν meth' hēmōn. The meaning is, “the love that is within us, or in us, is made perfect.” The e...
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...
John returns to the theme of 1 John 3:14 ff., be cause if the Church is the home of truth, still more is it the home of love. The evidence for our Divine sonship is that the love manifested by God in...
Beloved, let us love one another, because love has its source in God, and everyone who loves has God as the source of his birth and knows God. He who does not love has not come to know God. In this Go...
THE PERILS OF THE SURGING LIFE OF THE SPIRIT (1 John 3:24 B- 1 John 4:1) _ 4:1 This is how we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he gave to us. Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but t...
OUR LOVE. love with (App-104.) us. MADE PERFECT. App-125. BOLDNESS. Greek. _parrhresia._ See 1 John 2:28. JUDGMENT. App-177. AS HE IS. See 1 John 2:6....
Love is the Mark of the Children of the God who is Love 7. _Beloved, let us love one another_ See on 1 John 3:2. The transition seems abrupt, as if the Apostle had summarily dismissed an unwelcome sub...
_Herein is our love made perfect_ Better, as the margin, _Herein is_ LOVE WITH US _made perfect_; or, as R. V., _Herein is love_ MADE PERFECT WITH US. Most earlier English Versions agree with the latt...
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...
17. ἘΝ ΤΟΎΤΩΙ Τ. Ἡ�. ΜΕΘ ̓ ἩΜΩ͂Ν. Here R.V. _Herein is love_ MADE PERFECT WITH US, or the margin of A.V. _Herein is_ LOVE WITH US _made perfect_, is to be preferred to A.V. Most earlier English Versio...
7–21. LOVE IS THE MARK OF THE CHILDREN OF THE GOD WHO IS LOVE...
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...
ΤΕΤΕΛΕΊΩΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΤΕΛΕΙΌΩ (G5048) доводить до завершения (_см._ 1 John 4:12). ΠΑΡΡΗΣΊΑ (G3954) открытость, доверие. уверенность Numbers 2:28). ΈΧΩΜΕΝ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΈΧ ...
HEREIN IS OUR LOVE MADE PERFECT,— _Herein is love perfected in us_ (so it should be rendered), even by our thus dwelling in love, and thereby dwelling in God: and having this plain token of God's love...
CHAPTER XIV _RIGHTEOUSNESSDEMONSTRATION OF LOVE_ 1 John 4:17-21; 1 John 5:1-3 A. _The Text_ Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgement; because as he is...
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. (Compare 1 John 3:19.) OUR LOVE, [ hee (G3588) agapee (G26)...
VERSE 17. HEREIN IS OUR LOVE MADE PERFECT. By the operation of God's love in our hearts we are enabled to love our brethren and our neighbor, exhibiting the fruits of our love all around us, and so p...
3 The spirit of antichrist is the spirit of the world. It does not want the Christ of the Scriptures, but prefers some substitute more suited to its taste. This spirit has come to pervade, not only th...
HEREIN IS OUR LOVE MADE PERFECT] RV 'herein is love made perfect with us,' i.e. in the double communion spoken of in the preceding v. AS HE IS, SO ARE WE] We, as we are in this world, are like Christ,...
FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD IN LOVE 1. Try the spirits] RV 'Prove the spirits.' The verb is used of testing metals. 2, 3. See on 2 John 1:7....
HOW CAN I BE SURE? 1 JOHN _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 4 TEST THE *SPIRITS TO SEE IF THEY ARE TRUE (1 JOHN 4:1-6) V1 My friends, do not believe every *spirit. First, make sure where they are from. Se...
We love God and we Christians love each other. We live in God. God lives in us. This gives us confidence for that future day when God is the judge. Love is complete in us when we love God. This is th...
THE PERFECT LOVE THE SUREST TEST (1 John 4:7). (_a_) _Fraternal love the necessary product of the true knowledge of God, because God is love_ (1 John 4:7). (_b_) _The grand recent historical exhibi...
CHAPTER 14 BOLDNESS IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT 1 John 4:17 IT has been so often repeated that St. John's eschatology is idealised and spiritual, that people now seldom pause to ask what is meant by the...
The Blessedness of Love. “Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God, and every one that loveth of God hath been begotten and is getting to know God. He that loveth not did not get to kn...
τετελείωται, _cf._ 1 John 4:12. μεθʼ ἡμῶν : love is a heavenly visitant sojourning with us and claiming observance. Love has been “carried to its end” when we are like Jesus, His visible representativ...
THE TEST OF OUR LOVE 1 John 4:12 If we are willing to be channels through which God's love flows to others, there need be no limit to the fullness of that holy current. In humility, selflessness, an...
Two closely related perils threaten our fellowship with God as love, false prophets and the spirit which actuates them. Teaching is to be tested by the indwelling Spirit. All who refuse to confess tha...
MATURE LOVE GIVES ONE BOLDNESS IN JUDGMENT When the love of God becomes mature in His children, like the ripening of fruit, they can face the judgment with boldness. Such boldness arises from the fact...
(13) Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because (i) as he is, so are we in this world. (13) Again (as before) he commends love, seeing that by our agre...
The charity of God (which may either signify the love by which we love God, or by which God loves us) perfected with us, or in us, and so possesseth our souls, as to give us an humble confidence of ou...
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. (8) He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. (9) In this was manifested the...
17_Herein is our love made perfect _There are two clauses in this passage, — that we are then partakers of divine adoption, when we resemble God as children their father; and,secondly, that this confi...
Now, to make use of this last proof, caution was required, for many false prophets would assume, and even in the time of the apostle had already assumed, the semblance of having received communication...
HEREIN IS OUR LOVE MADE PERFECT,.... Or love with us; which some understand of the love of God towards his people, and which is shed abroad in them: this indeed removes all fear of an awful judgment,...
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. Ver. 17. _In the day of judgment_] Those that bear his image shall hear h...
1 John 4:17. "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." The sense seems to be this - our love is made perfect to gi...
_Whosoever shall_ From a principle of loving faith, openly _confess_ In the face of all opposition and danger, maintaining this profession with resolution and zeal, and acting in conformity to it; _th...
HEREIN; according to some, this word refers backward to the preceding verse. The meaning will then be, that by our dwelling in love, and thus in God and he in us, our love is made perfect; and the wor...
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....
Perfection in brotherly love:...
But there must be guards as to the operation of the Spirit of God, that is, the child of God must be guarded against all that would imitate the operation of the Spirit. Satan is extremely cunning, and...
OUR LOVE: _ Gr._ love with us...
14-21 The Father sent the Son, he willed his coming into this world. The apostle attests this. And whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. This confe...
And by this means (viz. of our inwardness with God) doth our love grow to that perfection, that we shall have the most fearless freedom and liberty of spirit in the judgment day; our hearts no way mis...
1 John 4:17 Love G26 perfected G5048 (G5769) us G3326 G2257 in G1722 this G5129 that G2443 have...
‘ Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, beca...
1 John 4:17-19. Here enters the second point of 1 John 4:12: ‘His love is perfected in us.' The ‘His' is omitted; HEREIN IS LOVE MADE PERFECT WITH US, that is, in all that concerns our estate. Love is...
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...
HEREIN (εν τουτω). It is not clear whether the ινα clause (sub-final use) is in apposition with εν τουτω as in John 15:8 or the οτ clause (because) with the ινα clause as parenthesis. Either makes...
1 John 4:17 The Fear of Death. I. Is not the bondage to the fear of death the one heavy burden of life? I do not mean that the fear of our own individual death is a constantly present fear. It may bu...
1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit,_ A simpleton believes every word that he hears, but «the wise man's eyes are in his head,» so he examines what he sees and hears, and does not blindly...
1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world._ If John had need to say that in the early mornin...
1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirit whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world._ This is an unction of which there is great need i...
1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world._ It was so in John's day: it is so in these days....
1 John 4:9. _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._ There is love in our creation; there is lov...
CONTENTS: Christians warned of false doctrines concerning Christ's person and work. Tests of the true. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, anti-christ, John. CONCLUSION: God's people must be ever c...
1 John 4:1. _Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God._ Whether those teachers believe that Christ is come in the flesh, which to the present hour the unbelieving jews den...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 4:17 BY THIS refers to the previous verse. CONFIDENCE FOR THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. Either eternal life or eternal punishment awaits every person (see...
1 JOHN 4:7 The Assurance of God through the Love of God. John’s teaching in these verses is like the apostle Paul’s “love chapter,” 1 Corinthians 13:1.1 JOHN—NOTE ON
Would someone please check the Psalm number in sentence formatted in blue in the 3rd note of ver. 18. CHAPTER 4 1. _Most dearly beloved_, &c. By the word _spirit_ he means suggestion, inspiration, im...
_In this is the love of God perfected, that we should have confidence_, &c. _Conf_. Greek _παζζησίαν_, i.e., _liberty, boldness in speaking._ 1st. _In this_, i.e., with this end and fruit. Perfect cha...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 4:15. SON OF GOD.—St. John was jealous of the double truth of the person of Jesus—His Divinity and His humanity. 1 John 4:17. MADE PERFECT.—Or reaches its purpo...
EXPOSITION 1 JOHN 4:1 - 1 JOHN 5:12 (2) _The source of son-ship. _Possession of the Spirit. 1 JOHN 4:1 Confession of the Incarnation is
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to I John chapter 4. As we go back to verse 1 John 4:24 of chapter 3, the later portion, "Hereby we know that He abides in us by the Spirit which He has given us." I kn...
1 John 2:28; 1 John 2:5; 1 John 3:19; 1 John 3:3; 1 John 4:12;...
Herein [ε ν τ ο υ τ ω]. To what does this refer? Two explanations are given. (1.) To the following that we may have boldness. So Huther, who argues thus on the ground that ver. 18 shows that the drift...
TESTING THE TRUE AND THE FALSE 1 John 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have in our opening verses some important admonitions, and also some important instructions. 1. IMPORTANT ADMONITIONS. (1) "Believe...
THE LOVE OF GOD CHAPTER 1 John 4:7 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have always thought of the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians as the Love Chapter. However, we have in the Word of God another chapter whic...
Hereby — That is, by this communion with God. Is our love made perfect; that we may — That is, so that we shall have boldness in the day of judgment — When all the stout — hearted shall tremble. Becau...
Still our apostle proceeds by way of argument to enforce upon us the obligation of our duty to love one another; he assures us here, that if our love BE MADE PERFECT, that is, heightened and improved...