1 John 3:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assurec our hearts before him. ”

• 1 John 3:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And hereby - Greek, “by this;” that is, by the fact that we have true love to others, and that we manifest it by a readiness to make sacrifices to do them good. We know that we are of the trut...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (19) And hereby we know that we are of the truth, (20) and shall assure our hearts before him. (19) He commends charity, by three effects: for first of all, by it we know that we are indeed the sons...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 spi...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  assure . App-150.

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• 1 John 3:19 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  19 And hereby we know, or, by this we know. The word truth, he takes now in a different sense; but there is a striking similarity in the words, — If we, in truth, love our neighbors, we h...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. Hereby we know that we are of the truth - That we have the true religion of the Lord Jesus, and shall assure our h...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And hereby we know, &c.— "And by a constant prevalence of this excellent temper and conduct, we may be well satisfied that we are begotten with the word of truth ( James 1:18 .), and are brough...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. Hereby - `herein;' in loving in deed and truth ( 1 John 3:18 ). We know. 'Aleph (') A B C have 'we sha...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 characteri...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Loving in Deed and in Truth 1 John 3:13-24 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...

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• 1 John 3:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 s...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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 ha...

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• 1 John 3:19 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE VOICE OF CONSCIENCE ‘And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Be...

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• 1 John 3:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And hereby we know that we are of the truth ,.... By the saints loving one another in deed and in truth, they know, as the cause is known by the effect, that they are of God, who is the true God, th...

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• 1 John 3:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. Ver. 19. And shall assure our hearts ] This, saith father Latimer, is the desert of the feast of a good consci...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  My beloved children, let us not love merely in word or in tongue Contenting ourselves with complimental expressions of regard, or with giving our Christian brethren nothing but fair speeches; bu...

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• 1 John 3:19 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Brotherly Love. A. D.  80.       14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we lo...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  And hereby we know that we are of the truth; i.e. this shall demonstrate to us, that we are the children of the truth, begotten by it, James 1:18 , when we resemble it, have the correspondent im...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 1 John 3:18 . In word .—Profession, mere boasting. True love finds expression in service. “St. John hints that there is some danger of this conventionality amongst...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  1 John 3:19 The Good and the Bad Conscience. There is many a text concerning which it may be said that, without an earnest study of the whole chapter, of the whole context, or of the whole Epistl...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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 upo...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• 1 John 3:19 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? Righteousness essential to the answer of...

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• 1 John 3:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION 1 John 3:1 to 1 John 5:12 3. SECOND MAIN DIVISION . God is Love. 1 John 3:1-62 (1) The evidence of sonship. Righteousness. 1 John 3:1-62 The Divine bi...

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• 1 John 3:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.

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• 1 John 3:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 1:8 ; 1 John 3:14 ; 1 John 3:21 ; 2 Timothy 1:12 ; Hebrews 10:22 ; Hebrews 11:13 ; Hebrews 6:10 ; Hebrews 6:11 ; Isaiah 32:17 ; John 13:35 ; John 18:37 ; Romans 4:21 ; Romans 8:38...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Children of God 1 John 3:1-24 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 wh...

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• 1 John 3:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  And hereby we know — We have a farther proof by this real, operative love. That we are of the truth — That we have true faith, that we are true children of God. And shall assure our hearts before h...

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