1 John 2:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. ”

1 John 2:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He that saith, I know Him - He who professes to be acquainted with the Saviour, or who professes to be a Christian. And keepeth not his commandments - What he has appointed to be observed by...
1 John 2:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(3) He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. (3) Holiness, that is, a life ordered according to the prescript of God's commandments, howev...
1 John 2:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
1 John 2:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

truth . See 1 John 1:6 .
1 John 2:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4 He that saith, I know him How does he prove that they are liars who boast that they have faith without piety? even by the contrary effect; for he has already said, that the knowledge of Go...
1 John 2:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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...
1 John 2:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. He that saith, I know him - This is a severe blow against those false teachers, and against all pr...
1 John 2:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. I know - `I have knowledge of (perfect) Him' (cf. 1 John 1:8 ).
1 John 2:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
1 John 2:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
1 John 2:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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;...
1 John 2:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
1 John 2:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
1 John 2:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He that saith I know him ,.... God or Christ, as the Gnostics did, who pretended to great, even perfect, knowledge of divine things: and keepeth not his commandments ; which the above persons had...
1 John 2:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. Ver. 4. He that saith, I know him ] Here he disputeth against Verbalists and Solifidians. See...
1 John 2:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
1 John 2:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

“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...
1 John 2:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Believer's Duty. A. D. 80. 3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his comm...
1 John 2:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

A liar; a false, hypocritical pretender, as 1 John 1:6 .
1 John 2:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
1 John 2:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
1 John 2:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 2:3-7 Doing and Knowing. I. St. John assumes that the knowledge of God is as possible, is as real, for human beings as any knowledge they can have of each other. Nay, he goes further than...
1 John 2:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 2:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
1 John 2:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
1 John 2:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Keeping Christ's commandments:
1 John 2:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 1:10 ; 1 John 1:6 ; 1 John 1:8 ; 1 John 2:9 ; 1 John 4:20 ; Hosea 8:2 ; Hosea 8:3 ; James 2:14-16 ; Titus 1:16

1 John 2:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 John 2:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 John 2:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 John 2:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

1 John 2:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 John 2:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 John 2:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 John 2:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 John 2:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 John 2:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 John 2:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 John 2:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 John 2:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 2:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 John 2:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 John 2:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 John 2:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 2:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 2:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 2:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 John 2:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 John 2:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge