Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
1 John 4:8
God is love] the third fundamental maxim (see Intro.). Love is not merely an attribute of God, it is His very Being. Hence to be without love is to be without God: cp. 1 John 4:16.
9. See John 3:16.
God is love] the third fundamental maxim (see Intro.). Love is not merely an attribute of God, it is His very Being. Hence to be without love is to be without God: cp. 1 John 4:16.
9. See John 3:16.
Verse 8. _HE THAT LOVETH NOT_] As already described, _knoweth_ _not God_-has no experimental knowledge of him. _GOD IS LOVE._] An infinite fountain of benevolence and beneficence to every human bein...
HE THAT LOVETH NOT, KNOWETH NOT GOD - Has no true acquaintance with God; has no just views of him, and no right feelings toward him. The reason for this is implied in what is immediately stated, that...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_knoweth not God_ Literally, _knew not God_, i.e. never attained to a knowledge of Him. This is a remarkable instance of S. John's habit of not making the second part of an antithesis the exact counte...
Ὁ ΜῊ�. For the μἡ comp. 1 John 3:10; 1 John 3:14; 1 John 2:4. οὐκ ἔγνω. Literally, _knew not God_, i.e. never attained to a knowledge of Him. Comp. 1 John 3:1;
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...
ΆΓΑΠΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΆΓΑΠΆΩ (G25) любить. Здесь любовь упоминается как качество Бога (GGBB, 45, 245, 264). О термине "любовь" и его связи с природой и личностью Бога _см._ 1 John 2:5; Schnack...
FOR GOD IS LOVE.— God is the most benevolent of all beings, full of love to his depending creatures; so that in him there is nothing wanting to the highest perfection of love. See 1 John 4:9, &c. He i...
HEREBY WE KNOW PART IV 1 John 4:7-21; 1 John 5:1-21 GOD IS LOVE Divine Sonship Tested By The Inter-Relationship Of: 1. Love 2. Faith 3. Righteousness CHAPTER XII _THE SOURCE OF LOVE_...
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. KNOWETH NOT, [ egnoo (G1097), aorist] - not only knoweth not now, but never has once for all known God. GOD IS LOVE. There is no article to lo...
VERSE 8. HE THAT LOVETH NOT, KNOWETH NOT GOD. We may pretend what we please, and yet if we do not love our brother, we do not know God aright, for GOD IS LOVE. God is essentially love. Here there i...
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...
Love is the test of whether a person knows God. If we know God, we will love other Christians. If we do not love the Christians then we do not know God. The reason for this is that God is love. Love...
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...
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...
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...
Conversely, a stranger to love is a stranger to God. οὐκ ἔγνω, “did not get to know,” _i.e._, at the initial crisis of conversion. On μὴ see note on 1 John 2:4....
THE TOKEN OF GOD'S LOVE 1 John 4:1 In those days the intense ferment of men's minds wrought many delusions and heresies which were fraught with temptation to young converts, and the Apostle wished to...
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...
GOD'S CHILDREN ARE KNOWN BY THEIR LOVE God's children can be identified by their love for others, which was first demonstrated by the Father. God was willing to give up His Son for the good of those l...
He that loveth not knoweth not God; (8) for God is love. (8) A confirmation: for it is the nature of God to love men, of which we have a most manifest proof above all other, in that of his only free...
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...
_‘GOD IS LOVE’_ ‘God is love.’ 1 John 4:8 This Epistle was an Epistle General, that is, it was not directed to any local Church. St. John was now a very old man. St. Peter, St. James, and St. Paul...
He also sets in opposition to this, according to his usual manner, the contrary clause, that there is no knowledge of God where there is no love. And he takes as granted a general principle or truth,...
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...
HE THAT LOVETH NOT, KNOWETH NOT GOD,.... If a man loves not the children of God, those that are born of him, he does not know, so as to love God, the Father of them; for to pretend love to God, the be...
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. Ver. 8. _Knoweth not God_] If moral virtue could be seen with mortal eyes, saith Plato, it would draw all hearts unto it. If God were well known,...
_Let us love one another_ From the doctrine he has just been defending, he draws this exhortation: as if he had said, Think it not enough speculatively to admit the Christian doctrine, but let it be y...
KNOWETH NOT GOD; has no true acquaintance and fellowship with him. GOD IS LOVE; this is the sum of his moral nature. To have communion with God we must be like him in love....
HE THAT LOVETH NOT KNOWETH NOT GOD; FOR GOD IS LOVE....
The greatness of God's 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...
7-13 The Spirit of God is the Spirit of love. He that does not love the image of God in his people, has no saving knowledge of God. For it is God's nature to be kind, and to give happiness. The law o...
Yea, since love is his very nature, and that _God is love, _ those that love (upon the account and in the way above expressed) are born of him, partake from him that excellent and most delectable natu...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV "God," then, being good, "is love," it is said.[175] Lactantius Divine Institutes Book I But perchance some one may ask of us the same question which Hortensiu...
1 John 4:8 not G3361 love G25 (G5723) not G3756 know G1097 (G5627) God G2316 for G3754 God...
GOD IS ESSENTIALLY LIGHT AND LOVE, HOLY LOVE, AND THEREFORE THOSE WHO ARE HIS AND KNOW HIM AND ABIDE IN HIM WILL REVEAL THAT LOVE TO ALL WHO ARE HIS (1 JOHN 4:7 TO 1 JOHN 5:3). ‘Beloved, let us love o...
_The love which this Faith embraces and knows: in its origin; its supreme manifestation; its perfect reflection in us; the whole section being begun, continued, and ended in this._ 1 John 4:7-8. Two s...
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...
HE THAT LOVETH NOT (ο μη αγαπων). Present active articular participle of αγαπαω "keeps on not loving."KNOWETH NOT GOD (ουκ εγνω τον θεον). Timeless aorist active indicative of γινωσκω, has no acq...
1 John 4:8 I. In perfect love there are three elements, which may best be seen by examining the three states of life in which they are respectively most prominent: the filial; the fraternal; the paren...
1 John 4:7 Love is of God; God is Love. I. "Love is of God." This does not mean merely that love comes from God and has its source in God, that He is the Author or Creator of it. All created things a...
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 4:1. _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 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._ If John had need to say that in the early mornin...
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...
WHOEVER DOES NOT LOVE. "One who is a _stranger_ to love, is a _stranger_ to God also!" Compare 1 Corinthians 2:9 and note....
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 4:8 DOES NOT KNOW GOD, BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE. The person who lacks love shows himself to be unchanged by the gospel message. “God is love” means that God continually gives of himse...
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...
_He that loveth not knoweth not God._ S. John having said just above, _Every one that loveth is born of God_, now proves the same thing from the contrary. He means, he who loveth not God and his neigh...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 4:7.—The previous verses are in some sense an “aside.” The apostle now resumes his proper theme. His main truth is this—Love is the mark of the children of God,...
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 1:5; 1 John 2:4; 1 John 2:9; 1 John 3:6; 2 Corinthians 13:11;...
Knoweth not [ο υ κ ε γ ν ω]. The aroist tense : did not know, from the beginning. He never knew. Is love [α γ α π η ε σ τ ι. ν]. See on God is light (i. 5), and the truth (i. 6); also God is spirit (J...
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...
God is love — This little sentence brought St. John more sweetness, even in the time he was writing it, than the whole world can bring. God is often styled holy, righteous, wise; but not holiness, rig...