1 John 4:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Herein is our loveb made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. ”

1 John 4:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Herein is our love made perfect - Margin, “love with us.” The margin accords with the Greek - μεθ ̓ ἡμῶν meth' hēmōn. The meaning is, “the love that is within us, or in us, is made perfec...
1 John 4:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(13) Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because (i) as he is, so are we in this world. (13) Again (as before) he commends love, seeing that by our agr...
1 John 4:17 - 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 4:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

our love . love with (App-104.) us. made perfect . App-125. boldness . Greek. parrhresia. See 1 John 2:28 . judgment . App-177. as He is . See 1 John 2:6 .
1 John 4:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

17 Herein is our love made perfect There are two clauses in this passage, — that we are then partakers of divine adoption, when we resemble God as children their father; and, secondly, that...
1 John 4:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. Herein is our love made perfect - By God dwelling in us, and we in him; h...
1 John 4:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Herein is our love made perfect,— Herein is love perfected in us (so it should be rendered), even by our thus dwelling in love, and thereby dwelling in God: and having this plain token of God's l...
1 John 4:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. (Compare 1 John 3:19-21 .) Our love , х hee ( G3588 ) a...
1 John 4:17 - 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 4:17 - 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 4:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 14 BOLDNESS IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT 1 John 4:17 IT has been so often repeated that St. John's eschatology is idealised and spiritual, that people now seldom pause to ask what is meant b...
1 John 4:17 - 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 4:17 - 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 4:17 - 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 4:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Herein is our love made perfect ,.... Or love with us; which some understand of the love of God towards his people, and which is shed abroad in them: this indeed removes all fear of an awful judgmen...
1 John 4:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. Ver. 17. In the day of judgment ] Those that bear his image shall hea...
1 John 4:17 - 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 4:17 - 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 4:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Divine Love. A. D. 80. 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in...
1 John 4:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

And by this means (viz. of our inwardness with God) doth our love grow to that perfection, that we shall have the most fearless freedom and liberty of spirit in the judgment day; our hearts no way mi...
1 John 4:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, bec...
1 John 4:17 - 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 4:17 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 4:17 The Fear of Death. I. Is not the bondage to the fear of death the one heavy burden of life? I do not mean that the fear of our own individual death is a constantly present fear. It ma...
1 John 4:17 - 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 4:17 - 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 4:17 - 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 4:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Perfection in brotherly love:
1 John 4:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 2:28 ; 1 John 2:5 ; 1 John 3:19-21 ; 1 John 3:3 ; 1 John 4:12 ; 1 Peter 3:16-18 ; 1 Peter 4:13 ; 1 Peter 4:1-3 ; 1 Peter 4:14 ; 2 Peter 2:9 ; 2 Peter 3:7 ; Hebrews 12:2 ; Hebrews...
1 John 4:17 - 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 4:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hereby — That is, by this communion with God. Is our love made perfect; that we may — That is, so that we shall have boldness in the day of judgment — When all the stout — hearted shall tremble. Be...

1 John 4:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 John 4:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 John 4:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 John 4:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 John 4:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 John 4:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 John 4:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 John 4:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 John 4:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 John 4:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 John 4:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 John 4:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 John 4:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 John 4:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 4:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 John 4:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 John 4:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 John 4:17 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 4:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 4:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 4:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 John 4:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 John 4:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 4:17 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

1 John 4:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes