“ Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. ”
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another - Because he is so much exalted above us, and if he has loved those who were so inferior and so unworthy, we ought to love thos...
(9) Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. (9) An other reason by comparison: if God so loved us, shall not we his children love one another?
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...
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11 Beloved Now the Almighty accommodates to his own purpose what he has just taught us respecting the love of God; for he exhorts us by God’s example to brotherly love; as also Paul sets bef...
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. If God so loved us - Without any reason or consideration on our part, and without any desert in us; we ought also, in like manner, to l...
We ought also to love one another.— We, as his children, ought to imitate the infinitelyamiableexampleofourcommonFather,andsincerelyandaffectionately love one another. Sometimes the love of God the...
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. God's love to us the grand motive for love to one another ( 1 John 3:16 ). If - as we all admit. We ought also - as born...
Fellowship with God in Love 1. Try the spirits] RV 'Prove the spirits.' The verb is used of testing metals. 2, 3 . See on 2 John 1:7 .
THE PERFECT LOVE THE SUREST TEST ( 1 John 4:7-21 ). ( a ) Fraternal love the necessary product of the true knowledge of God, because God is love ( 1 John 4:7-8 ). ( b ) The grand recent histor...
the Token of God's Love 1 John 4:1-11 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...
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 th...
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...
REFLECTED LOVE ‘Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.’ 1 John 4:11 Thus St. John has summed up his argument, and this is ‘the conclusion of the whole matter.’ Whom...
Beloved, if God so loved us ,.... As to send his Son to be a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins, and to obtain eternal life for us through his sufferings and death: the apostle uses the same langua...
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. Ver. 11. If God so loved us ] His one example easily answereth all our objections, taketh off all our excuses; as that our brother...
Herein is love Worthy of our highest admiration; not that we loved God First; for we were, on the contrary, in a state of enmity to him, in which, if we had remained unsolicited and untouched by...
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, an...
Brotherly Love. A. D. 80. 7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every on...
We discover little sense of this love of his to us, if we do not so.
‘Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.' The greatness of this love of God, so wonderfully revealed, can only move those who believe in it and respond to it to love one anot...
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 G...
1 John 4:11 Sacrifice and Service. I. The sacrifice of love. It is of this that St. John speaks when he says, "In this was manifested the love of God toward us." True, the visible world teems wit...
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 mor...
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...
EXPOSITION 1 John 4:1 - 1 John 5:12 (2) The source of son-ship. Possession of the Spirit. 1 John 4:1-62 Confession of the Incarnation is the assurance that the Spirit of God,...
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
1 John 3:16 ; 1 John 3:17 ; 1 John 3:23 ; 2 Corinthians 8:8 ; 2 Corinthians 8:9 ; Colossians 3:13 ; Ephesians 4:31 ; Ephesians 4:32 ; Ephesians 5:1 ; Ephesians 5:2 ; John 13:34 ; John 15:...
Testing the True and the False 1 John 4:1-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have in our opening verses some important admonitions, and also some important instructions. 1. Important admonitions. (1...