“ Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. ”
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not - If we so live as to have an approving conscience - that is, if we indulge in no secret sin; if we discharge faithfully every known duty; if we submit withou...
(21) Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, [then] have we confidence toward God. (21) A third effect also rises from the former, that in these miseries we are sure to be heard, because we are the so...
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...
confidence . See 1 John 2:28 . toward . App-104.
21 If our heart condemns not I have already explained that this refers not to hypocrites nor to the gross despisers of God. For how muchsoever the reprobate may approve of their own lives...
DISCOURSE: 2450 A GOOD AND EVIL CONSCIENCE 1 John 3:20-21 . If our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we con...
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. If our heart condemn us not - If we be conscious to ourselves of our own sincerity, that we practice not deceit, and use no...
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not,— Though the expression is negative in the text, it must imply somewhat positive; namely, that conscience should upon examination acquit us. St. John is speakin...
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. Beloved. There is no But contrasting the two cases, 1 John 3:20-21 , because "Beloved" sufficiently marks the transi...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not ,.... Which must be understood, not of a stupidity of mind, as is in unregenerate men, who have no sense of sin, no sorrow for it, or remorse of conscience on ac...
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. Ver. 21. Then have we confidence ] Sincerity is the mother of serenity, Sine qua, tranquillitas omnis tempestas est,...
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not If our conscience, duly enlightened by the word and Spirit of God, and comparing all our thoughts, words, and works with that word, pronounce that they agree th...
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...
The Testimony of Conscience. A. D. 80. 20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than o...
But for their not condemning us, though the expression be merely negative, it must imply somewhat positive; for there are many whose hearts condemn them not, through ignorance of their rule, or oscit...
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...
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...
1 John 3:19-22 God Greater than Our Heart. I. The subject with which these verses deal is an accusing conscience and its antidote. St. John does not say that the heart may not accuse justly. He d...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The reassurance of the Spirit:
1 Corinthians 4:4 ; 1 John 2:28 ; 1 John 4:17 ; 1 Timothy 2:8 ; 2 Corinthians 1:12 ; Hebrews 10:22 ; Hebrews 4:16 ; Job 22:26 ; Job 27:6 ; Psalms 101:2 ; Psalms 7:3-5
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...
If our heart condemn us not — If our conscience, duly enlightened by the word and Spirit of God, and comparing all our thoughts, words, and works with that word, pronounce that they agree therewith...