ἡμεῖς emphatic: “Whatever the world may say, we know”. The test is not its hatred but our love. μεταβεβήκαμεν, “have migrated”. The word is used of transition from one place to another (John 7:3; John 13:1), of passing from one form of government to another (Plat. Rep. 550 D), of the transmigration of souls (Luc. Gall. 4).
1 JOHN 3:14 avgapw/n {A} After avgapw/n a variety of witnesses add to.n avdelfo,n (C K L Y 81 _Byz Lect al_) or to.n avdelfo.n auvtou/ (P 056 614 Syrp, h _al_). In the opinion of a majority of the...
Verse 14. _WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE PASSED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE_] _Death_ and _life_ are represented here as two distinct _territories,_ _states_, or _kingdoms_, to either of which the inhabitants of eit...
WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE PASSED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE - From spiritual death (Notes, Ephesians 2:1) to spiritual life; that is, that we are true Christians. BECAUSE WE LOVE THE BRETHREN - The sentiment her...
IV. RIGHTEOUSNESS AND LOVE AS MANIFESTED BY THE CHILDREN OF GOD Chapter S 2:28-3:18 __ 1. The children of God and their coming manifestation (1 John 2:28 -1 John 3:3) 2. Sin and the new nature (1...
The hatred of the world is to be expected, but within the Christian brotherhood there must be love, manifesting itself in deeds of self-sacrifice in imitation of Christ's love. If we possess this spir...
In this the children of God and the children of the devil are made plain; anyone who does not do righteousness is not of God, and neither is he who does not love his brother, because the message that...
REMEMBER THE PRIVILEGES OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (1 John 3:1-2)...
PASSED. Greek. _metabaino._ Compare John 6:24 (same word). FROM. App-104. UNTO. App-104. LIFE. App-170. HIS BROTHER. The texts omit....
Love and Hate: Life and Death _Marvel not, my brethren_ Comp. John 5:28; John 3:7. The antagonism between the light and the darkness, between God and the evil one, between righteousness and unrighteou...
Love means life and hate means death. _We know_ The pronoun is very emphatic: -the dark world which is full of devilish hate may think and do what it pleases about us; _we know_that we have left the a...
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...
14. After ἈΓΑΠΩ͂Ν omit τὸν� with [623][624][625] against [626][627][628]. [623] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the monastery of S. Catherine on Mount Sinai, and now at Petersburg. A...
13–24. LOVE AND HATE: LIFE AND DEATH ΜῊ ΘΑΥΜΆΖΕΤΕ. Comp. John 5:28, and contrast 1 John 3:7. The antagonism between the light and the darkness, between God and the evil one, between righteousness and...
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...
ΟΪΔΑΜΕΝ преф. _ind. act. от_ ΟΙΔΑ (G1492) знать. Def. perf. со значением _praes._ ΜΕΤΑΒΕΒΉΚΑΜΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΜΕΤΑΒΑΊΝΩ (G3327) переходить с одного места на другое, мигрировать, передвигаться...
DISCOURSE: 2447 LOVE OF THE BRETHREN 1 John 3:14. _We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren_. LOVE is said to be “the fulfilling of the law:” and it certainly is...
WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE PASSED FROM DEATH, &C.— This is said even of the best men; which implies, by a strong consequence, that they are, as it were, born in the land and territories of death; or that th...
CHAPTER X _DIVINE SONSHIP PROVEN BY ACTIVE LOVE_ (The Second Test. The Second Time) 1 John 3:11-24 A. _The Text_ For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one...
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth n...
VERSE 14. WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE PASSED FROM DEATH. While we are hated by the world, this should not be regarded by us, since we know that we have passed away from a state the final end of which is ete...
8 The title..Adversary" has far more aptness than is at first apparent. Satan is known to us only through his word He never appears otherwise than as the evil creature indicated by his titles. From hi...
3:14 know (a-2) _ Oida_ , as ch. 2.29. [his] (f-21) Lit. 'the.'...
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD AND THE DUTIES AND PRIVILEGES OF SONSHIP 1. The sons of God] RV 'children of God,' adding the words, 'and _such_ we are.' The word translated 'children' here is characteristi...
HOW CAN I BE SURE? 1 JOHN _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 THE CHILDREN OF GOD DO THE RIGHT THINGS (1 JOHN 3:1-10) V1 See what great love the *Father has given to us! He has called us children of God....
(4) BROTHERLY LOVE THE NECESSARY FLOWER OF THE DIVINE LOVE IN THE DIVINE BIRTH (1 John 3:11). — In 1 John 2:10 St. John showed the necessary connection between righteousness and love; there is no cont...
LOVING IN DEED AND IN TRUTH 1 John 3:13 Love to the brethren is a sign that we have been born into the family. We may not _like_ them all, yet we can _love_ them. If we love, we live; and if we live...
The letter now passed to a discussion of the fellowship of the saints with God as love. The hope born of love will have as its inevitable result the purification of those possessing it. The apostle sh...
THE DANGER OF HATRED So, it should come as no surprise when the world hates us when we do things pleasing to God (John 15:18-20). Good works expose evil works and their reward stirs envy in the hearts...
(14) We (o) know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not [his] brother abideth in death. (14) The second reason: Because charity is a testimony that...
_We know that we have passed from death to life; i.e. from the death of sin to the life of grace: we know it by a moral certainty, when we experience in our heart a love of our neighbour. --- He that...
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. (14) We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. (15) Whosoever hat...
_LOVE TO CHRIST’S BRETHREN_ ‘We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.’ 1 John 3:14 In the Revised Version our text reads: ‘We know that we have passed out of...
14_We know. _He commends love to us by a remarkable eulogy, because it is an evidence of a transition from death to life. It hence follows that if we love the brethren we are blessed, but that we are...
Now to say that we are born of Him is to say that we are children of God. [13] What a love is that which the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children! [14] Therefore the world know...
WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE PASSED FROM DEATH TO LIFE,.... From a death in sin, a moral or spiritual death; which lies in a separation from God, Father, Son, and Spirit; in an alienation from the life of God...
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not _his_ brother abideth in death. Ver. 14. _We know that we have passed_] Not we think, we hope, &c. I...
_For_, &c. As if he had said, I have just declared that the want of brotherly love is a proof that a man is not of God, and a little consideration may convince you of the truth of the assertion: for _...
FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE; spiritually. BECAUSE WE LOVE THE BRETHREN; for true love towards them is inseparable from love towards God, and love is the essence of the new divine life. To dwell in love, is...
True brotherly love:...
WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE PASSED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE, BECAUSE WE LOVE THE BRETHREN. HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS BROTHER ABIDETH IN DEATH....
This chapter continues the subject introduced in ch.2:28. Verse 29 has shown that righteousness is an absolute requirement. It is indeed a solid, sound basis for the precious bestowal of the love of t...
11-15 We should love the Lord Jesus, value his love, and therefore love all our brethren in Christ. This love is the special fruit of our faith, and a certain sign of our being born again. But none w...
The notion of BROTHER must not be understood so narrowly, as only to signify such as we have particular inclination to, as being of our own party and opinion, or kindred, or who have obliged us by spe...
Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Sixth These have been perverted from the truth: among them there is the hope of repentance, by which it is possible to live. Corruption, then, has a hope of a kind of re...
1 John 3:14 know G1492 (G5758) that G3754 we G2249 passed G3327 (G5758) from G1537 death G2288 to...
THE CENTRALITY OF CHRISTIAN LOVE (1 JOHN 3:11 TO 1 JOHN 4:21). The reference to loving one's brother, deliberately added almost as an appendage in 1 John 3:10 in order to introduce the next section, n...
THE ESSENTIAL NATURE OF CHRISTIAN LOVE AS A TEST OF FAITHFULNESS TO GOD (1 JOHN 3:11). In all this we must keep in mind that the emphasis is on loving our brothers who are true to the Gospel, those wh...
‘Marvel not, brethren, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love dwells in death. Whoever hates his brother is a mu...
1 John 3:13-15. Cain becomes ‘the world,' and Abel ‘you;' the emphasis resting on these two words. 1 John 3:14. There is no exhortation in this. Faithful to the thought of the great message, the apost...
The apostle now introduces a new order of thought, governed by the idea of regeneration as the gift of life in Christ to individual man. He first (down to chap. 1 John 3:3) dilates on its glory as a b...
WE KNOW (ημεις οιδαμεν). Emphatic expression of ημεις (we) in contrast to the unregenerate world, the Christian consciousness shared by writer and readers.WE HAVE PASSED (μεταβεβηκαμεν). Perfect...
1 John 3:14 Our True Orbit. I. History tells us for how many thousand years men believed that the sun went round the earth. History tells us how men went on century after century inventing new theori...
1 John 3:10. In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. For this is the message th...
1 John 3:1. _Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God:_ Behold it, wonder at it, and never cease to admire it. Is it not one of the great...
1 John 3:1. _Behold,_ For there is no greater wonder out of heaven than this: «Behold,» 1 John 3:1. _What manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: t...
I have read this chapter many times in your hearing, but we cannot read it too often, for it is full of the deepest and most important instruction. God grant that fresh light from above may shine upon...
CONTENTS: God's love magnified and the believer exhorted to holiness. Brotherly love urged. How our hearts may be assured before God. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Satan, Cain, John. CONCLUSION: It is a w...
1 John 3:1. _That we should be called the sons of God!_ The character of the favoured race is defined in the preseding verses: they keep the commandments of God: 1 John 3:3. They abide in Christ by wo...
WE KNOW. "The _world_ is death! We Christians have left death and come over into life! The proof of this is the love we have for our brothers (fellowman)l Whoever does not _love_ proves he is still in...
_We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren _ PASSING FROM DEATH TO LIFE BY LOVE I. What we are to understand by death and life. II. What we are to understand by...
CHAPTER 3 VER. 1. _Behold what great love the Father hath bestowed on us_ (unworthy, enemies and sinners as we are), _that we should be called, and be the sons of God._ Love, actively, His wondrous lo...
_We know that we have passed from death unto life._ Not because we believe that we are predestinated, but as a moral certainty, by the testimony of a good conscience, by the innocency of our life, and...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 3:13. WORLD HATE YON.—The “world” includes all who are not actuated by the supreme motive, love to God. For “hate” read “hateth” (John 15:18). 1 John 3:14. FROM...
EXPOSITION 1 JOHN 3:1 TO 1 JOHN 5:12 3. SECOND MAIN DIVISION. _God is Love._ 1 JOHN 3:1
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God (1 John 3:1): I love that verse. Behold, what manner of love God has bestowed upon you, that you sh...
1 John 2:10; 1 John 2:11; 1 John 2:3; 1 John 2:9; 1 John 3:23;...
We know. Emphatic; we as distinguished from the world. Have passed [μ ε α τ β ε β η κ α μ ε ν]. Lit., have passed over. From death [ε κ τ ο υ θ α ν α τ ο υ]. Lit., out of the death. The article marks...
CHILDREN OF GOD 1 John 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS What a wonderful truth is this: "Now are we the sons of God." What! We who were once children of darkness, are now the children of light; we who were c...
We know — As if he had said, We ourselves could not love our brethren, unless we were passed from spiritual death to life, that is, born of God. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death — That...
Observe here, 1. Our apostle's description of. carnal unregenerate state; it is. state of spiritual death. 2. Of. Christian's renewed state by the Spirit of Christ, it is. state of spiritual life; WE...