sinned. App-128.
liar. See 1 John 5:10; John 8:44.
word. App-121.
If we say that we have not sinned - In times that are past. Some perhaps might be disposed to say this; and as the apostle is careful to guard ev...
(7) If we say that we have not sinned, we make him (i) a liar, and his (k) word is not in us. (7) A repeat of the former verse, in which he condemne...
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:2 . Fellowship with God Requires a Right View of Sin. 1 John 1:5-10 . Spiritual fellowship depends on moral affinity. H...
10 We make him a liar He goes still further, that they who claim purity for themselves blaspheme God. For we see that he everywhere represen...
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].
If we say that we have not sinned, &c.— "If, after all, we assert that we have not transgressed the law of God, so as to need pardon through th...
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. Parallel to 1 John 1:8 . We have not sinned - commissio...
Fellowship with God in Light 1. Observe the grammatical form of 1 John 1:1-3 . In 1 John 1:1 a sentence is begun which, interrupted by the pare...
[2. First Half. God is Light ( 1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28 ). (1) STATEMENT OF THE LEADING THOUGHT ( 1 John 1:5 ). (2) FIRST INFERENCE: The tr...
Fellowship in the Light 1 John 1:1-10 As the aged Apostle began to write he was living over again his first happy experiences with the Savior....
This is possibly the last apostolic message to the whole Church. It is complementary to the Gospel of John. Its subject is fellowship with God, into...
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. (6) If we say that we...
REFLECTIONS Reader! You and I may well enter upon this blessed portion of God with prayer. And surely, under divine teaching, we shall end it in pra...
If we say that we have not sinned ,.... Have never sinned, in time past as well as now; deny original sin, and that men are born in sin, but affirm...
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. Ver. 10. We make him a liar ] For the Scripture hath concluded...
If we say Before Christ's blood has cleansed us; that we have no sin To be cleansed from; or if, even after we have experienced the cleansing vir...
Unlike his second and third epistles, this first from John's pen waits for no salutation, but more like Paul's to the Hebrews, immediately begins wit...
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If we say that we have not sinned: see 1 John 1:8,9 . We make him a liar; which they make him that believe not his word, 1 John 5:10 , expr...
‘If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.' John once again returns to the question of those who declare the...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 1 John 1:5 .—The first part of the epistle begins here. It is directed against the Gnostic teaching, that to a man...
1 John 1:8-10 I. "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." It is not deliberate falseness that we are her...
1 John 1:1 . That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands hav...
1 John 1:1 . That which was from the beginning. We have before observed that the neuter gender is often preferred by the Greeks, and with great pr...
EXPOSITION 1 John 1:1-62 1. THE INTRODUCTION . It declares the writer's authority, based on personal experience; announces the subject-...
Sin and its forgiveness:
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1 John 1:8 ; 1 John 2:4 ; 1 John 4:4 ; 1 John 5:10 ; 2 John 1:2 ; Colossians 3:16 ; Job 24:25 ; Psalms 130:3
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Yet still we are to retain, even to our lives' end, a deep sense of our past sins. Still if we say, we have not sinned, we make him a liar — Who sa...
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.