1 John 4:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. ”

1 John 4:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And we have known and believed ... - We all have assurance that God has loved us, and the fullest belief in the great fact of redemption by which he has manifested his love to us. God is love...
1 John 4:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. (12) God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. (12) A fourth reason: God is the fountain and wellspring...
1 John 4:16 - 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 4:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

believed . have believed. App-150. to . in. App-104. Compare 1 John 4:9 .
1 John 4:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

16 And we have known and believed It is the same as though he had said, “We have known by believing;” for such knowledge is not attained but by faith. But we hence learn how different, is an...
1 John 4:16 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2457 THE DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER OF A CHRISTIAN 1 John 4:16 . We have known and believed the love that God hath to us . NEVER was there a truth so deep, so comprehensive, so endearing,...
1 John 4:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. God is love - See on 1 John 4:8 (note). He that dwelleth in l...
1 John 4:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. And we - John and his readers (not as 1 John 4:14 , th...
1 John 4:16 - 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 4:16 - 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 4:16 - 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 4:16 - 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 4:16 - 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 4:16 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

LOVE’S CROWN ‘God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.’ 1 John 4:16 It is a distinction between Christians and all others, that whereas the heathen and unbe...
1 John 4:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And we have known and believed ,.... Or have a full assurance and knowledge of, and faith in, the love that God hath to us ; shown as in many instances, so more especially in sending his Son to be...
1 John 4:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Ver. 16. And we have known and believed ] That is, we know...
1 John 4:16 - 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 4:16 - 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 4:16 - 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 4:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Inasmuch as the transformative efficacy of God's love upon us depends upon our certain apprehension of it, he doubles the expression of that certainty: We have known and believed, i.e. we are assur...
1 John 4:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And we know and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.' John wants there to be no doubt about the love that God has...
1 John 4:16 - 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 4:16 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 4:8 , 1 John 4:16 I. God is love. The text takes us up, as it were, above the veil; we are caught up through the door of this vision to the sanctuary of God's throne. We are suffered to...
1 John 4:16 - 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 4:16 - 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 4:16 - 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 4:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Dwelling in God and in His love:
1 John 4:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 2:9 ; 1 John 3:1 ; 1 John 3:16 ; 1 John 3:24 ; 1 John 4:10 ; 1 John 4:12 ; 1 John 4:13 ; 1 John 4:8 ; 1 John 4:9 ; Isaiah 64:4 ; Psalms 18:1-3 ; Psalms 31:19 ; Psalms 36:7-...
1 John 4:16 - 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 4:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And we know and believe — By the same Spirit, the love that God hath to us.

1 John 4:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 John 4:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 John 4:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 John 4:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:16 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

1 John 4:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 John 4:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 John 4:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 John 4:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 John 4:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 John 4:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 John 4:16 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

1 John 4:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 John 4:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 John 4:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 4:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 John 4:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 John 4:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 John 4:16 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 4:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 4:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 4:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 John 4:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 John 4:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 4:16 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

1 John 4:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes