“ And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. ”
And hereby we do know that we know him - To wit, by that which follows, we have evidence that we are truly acquainted with him, and with the requirements of his religion; that is, that we are tru...
(2) And hereby we do know that we (e) know him, (e) if we keep his commandments. (2) He returns to the testimony of our union with God, that is, to sanctification, declaring what it is to walk in th...
Obedience the Proof of Fellowship. Here John repeats in a positive way the teaching of the previous section. Conduct cannot be, as the false teachers claimed, a matter of indifference, for true kno...
hereby . in (App-104.) this. know . App-132. The second "know" is in perf. tense, as in 1 John 2:4 also.
3 And hereby, or by this. After having treated of the doctrine respecting the gratuitous remission of sins, he comes to the exhortations which belong to it, and which depend on it. And firs...
DISCOURSE: 2434 THE TRUE TEST OF LOVE TO GOD 1 John 2:3-5 . Hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a lia...
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. And hereby we do know that we know him - If we keep the commandments of God, loving him with all our heart, and our neighbor as ou...
Hereby we do know that we know him— To know Christ, to love him, to have him, and to be in him, are in this epistle used as synonymous terms, or very nearly so. St. John had in the former c...
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. Hereby, х en ( G1722 ) touto ( G5124 )] - 'in this.' 'It is herein only that we know (present) that we have knowl...
The Advocacy of Christ and the Obligations of Believers 1. My little children] The diminutive implies the fatherly care which the aged Apostle felt for his disciples. Advocate ] The word thus tra...
The fourth inference from the doctrine that God is Light analyses more accurately the general expression of 1 John 1:7 , walking in the light. If Christ is, as in 1 John 2:1-2 , the Paraclete and...
Keeping His Commandment of Love 1 John 2:1-11 It is clearly possible to be kept from known and presumptuous sin. We shall be tempted, for that is an inevitable experience of life in this world;...
Affirming that the purpose of his writing is that we sin not, the writer declared that even if we sin, provision is made by which it may be put away. The tests whereby we may know our relation to lig...
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. (4) He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. (5) But whoso keepeth his...
COMFORTABLE WORDS ‘If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous: and He is the propitiation for our sins.’ 1 John 2:1-2 ‘Hear also what St. John saith.’ So...
And hereby we do know that we know him ,.... Either the Father, with whom Christ is an advocate; not as the God of nature, and by the light of it, nor as the lawgiver and Judge of the whole earth, a...
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. Ver. 3. We know that we know him ] By a reflex act of the soul; hence the assurance of faith, the fruit of fruitfulness, 1 Co...
Hereby we do know that we , truly and savingly, know him As he is the Advocate, the righteous One, the Propitiation; if we keep his commandments Particularly those of faith and love. He that sa...
“My children, these things I write to you in order that ye may not sin; and if anyone sin, we have a patron with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (JND). If we have seen some absolute, positive...
The Believer's Duty. A. D. 80. 3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his comm...
OLBGrk; This faith is often in the Holy Scripture signified by the name of knowledge, Isaiah 53:11 1 Thessalonians 17:3 , viz. an appropriative, transformative knowledge, by which we own and ac...
How Then Can We Know That We Truly Know Christ? ( 1 John 2:3-6 ). Many were claiming that they knew God, that they had special knowledge of Him, that through their own particular religious ordinan...
PROVISION FOR THE SINNING OF BELIEVERS CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES FIRMLY does St. John declare that the Christian should not sin, and must not sin. But he clearly recognises that Christians...
commandments John uses "commandments" (1) in the general sense of the divine will, however revealed, "his word"; ( 1 John 2:5 ); and (2) especially of the law of Christ. ( Galatians 6:2...
1 John 2:1-3 The True Idea of Man. I. St. John had a special reason for using this tender phrase, "my little children," in this place. All sin is connected by the Apostle with the loss of fellows...
1 John 2:1 . My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. That you may abstain from it, and abhor it, and not indulge in anything that would lead you towards it. 1 John 2...
1 John 2:2 . He is the propitiation for our sin: ιλασμος, a ram, or other victim offered as an atoning sacrifice for sin. On Genesis 15:9 , the rabbins make a distinction between the heifer, the...
EXPOSITION 1 John 2:1 , 1 John 2:2 Moreover, walking in the light involves accepting the propitiation wrought through Jesus Christ the Righteous. The connexion with the preceding is c...
And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.
1 John 2:4-6 ; 1 John 3:14 ; 1 John 3:19 ; 1 John 3:22 ; 1 John 3:23 ; 1 John 4:13 ; 1 John 5:19 ; 1 John 5:3 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:1 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:2 ; 2 Corinthians 4:6 ; Hebrews 5:9...
And hereby we know that we truly and savingly know him — As he is the advocate, the righteous, the propitiation. If we keep his commandments — Particularly those of faith and love.