1 John 4:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. ”

1 John 4:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God - In the true sense, and from the heart. This will always prove that a man is a Christian. But the passage cannot mean that if he merely says...
1 John 4:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Whosoever shall (h) confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. (h) With such a confession as comes from true faith, and is accompanied with love, so that there is an a...
1 John 4:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
1 John 4:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

confess, &c . See Matthew 16:16 . Jesus . App-98.
1 John 4:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

15 Whosoever shall confess He repeats the truth, that we are united to God by Christ, and that we cannot be connected with Christ except, God abides in us. Faith and confession are use...
1 John 4:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. Whosoever shall confess - Much stress is laid on this confession, because the false teachers denied the reali...
1 John 4:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Whosoever shall confess— See on 1 John 4:2 . The confession here required must have been sincere, otherwise it would have been of no moment. Confessing Jesus to be the Son of God, or the Messiah,...
1 John 4:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. Shall confess - once for all (aorist). That Jesus is the Son of God - and therefore "the Saviour...
1 John 4:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 .
1 John 4:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
1 John 4:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Test of Our Love 1 John 4:12-21 If we are willing to be channels through which God's love flows to others, there need be no limit to the fullness of that holy current. In humility, selfless...
1 John 4:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
1 John 4:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
1 John 4:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God ,.... The only begotten of the Father; that he is not a mere man, as the Jews, and Ebion and Cerinthus said, but a divine person, equal with the...
1 John 4:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. Ver. 15. Whosoever shall confess ] See Trapp on " 1Co 12:3 "
1 John 4:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Whosoever shall From a principle of loving faith, openly confess In the face of all opposition and danger, maintaining this profession with resolution and zeal, and acting in conformity to it; t...
1 John 4:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
1 John 4:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Divine Love. A. D. 80. 14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son...
1 John 4:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This discourse is most studiously and observably interwoven, of these two great things, mentioned 1 John 3:23 , faith in the Messiah, and the love of one another, as being the principal antidotes...
1 John 4:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Whoever will confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.' God's salvation is only effective through His Son. Each one who truly confesses Jesus as God's Son, and as the...
1 John 4:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 1 John 4:15 . Son of God .—St. John was jealous of the double truth of the person of Jesus—His Divinity and His humanity. 1 John 4:17 . Made perfect .—Or reaches...
1 John 4:15 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 4:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
1 John 4:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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,...
1 John 4:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Dwelling in God and in His love:
1 John 4:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 3:24 ; 1 John 4:12 ; 1 John 4:2 ; 1 John 5:1 ; 1 John 5:5 ; 2 John 1:7 ; Luke 12:8 ; Matthew 10:32 ; Philippians 2:11 ; Romans 10:9
1 John 4:15 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

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...
1 John 4:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Whosoever shall, from a principle of loving faith, openly confess in the face of all opposition and danger, that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him.

1 John 4:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 John 4:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 John 4:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 John 4:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 John 4:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 John 4:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 John 4:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 John 4:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 John 4:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 John 4:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 John 4:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 John 4:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 John 4:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 4:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 John 4:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 John 4:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 John 4:15 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 4:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 4:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 John 4:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 John 4:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 4:15 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

1 John 4:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes