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; that Jesus is the Son of God The Christ, the Saviour of the world; God abideth in him, and he in God There is a blessed union between God and his soul, so that it is, in the language of Scripture, the habitation of God; who, as it were, lives and walks in him, Eph 2:22; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 2 Corinthians 6:18. And we have known and believed By the influence of the same Spirit; the love that God hath to us And hath manifested, not only by giving his Son to die for us, (1 John 4:9-10,) but by making us his children in and through his Son, 1 John 3:1. God is love The apostle repeats what he had declared 1 John 4:8, where see the note; and he that abideth in love Namely, in love to God, his people, and all mankind; abideth in God, and God in him His union and communion with God are hereby continued and increased. Herein Or hereby, that is, by the continuance of this communion with God; is our love made perfect We are brought to love him with all our hearts, and our neighbour as ourselves; that we may have That is, so that we shall have; boldness in the day of judgment When all the stout-hearted shall tremble; because as he, Christ, is, so are we Who are fathers in Christ; in this world Even while we live on earth, so far as the imperfections of this mortal life, to which we are here confined, will admit.
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1 John 4:15-17
15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
16 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.
17 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.