Him. The texts omit.
We love him, because he first loved us - This passage is susceptible of two explanations; either. (1)That the fact that he first loved us is t...
(14) We love him, because he first loved us. (14) Lest any man should think that that peace of conscience proceeds from our love as the cause, he go...
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...
19 We love him The verb ἀγαπῶμεν may be either in the indicative or imperative mood; but the former is the more suitable here, for the Apos...
DISCOURSE: 2461 GOD’S LOVE THE SOURCE OF OURS 1 John 4:19 . We lore Him, because He first loved us . THERE is, as there ought to be, a great an...
We love him, because he first loved us. We love him because he first loved us - This is the foundation of our love to God. 1. We love him because we...
We love him, &c.— Some would read this, Let us therefore love him: and their reasons for it are, because the connection is by this interpreta...
We love him, because he first loved us. Him. Omitted in A B: 'Aleph (') has 'God.' 'We (emphatic, on our part) love (in general, Him, the bre...
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 .
We love him] RV 'we love.' Possibly the verb should be rendered 'let us love.'
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...
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 fu...
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 t...
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 Go...
LOVE AND FEAR ‘Perfect love casteth out fear.’ 1 John 4:18 This principle, that ‘perfect love casteth out fear,’ is a universal principle, a...
GOD’S LOVE AND MAN’S RESPONSE ‘We love Him, because He first loved us.’ 1 John 4:19 God’s love and man’s response—that is the meaning of our...
We love him, because he first loved us. Lest love to God, and so to one another, should be thought to be of ourselves, and too much be ascribed unt...
We love him, because he first loved us. Ver. 19. Because he first loved us ] See Trapp on " 1Jn 4:10 " Mary answers not Rabboni till Christ f...
There is no fear in love No slavish or tormenting fear, diffidence, or distrust, can be where love reigns; but perfect , mature love casteth out...
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 opera...
The Divine Love. A. D. 80. 17 Herein is ou...
His is the fountain love, ours but the stream: his love the inducement, the pattern, and the effective cause of ours. He that is first in love, loves...
‘We love, because he first loved us.' ‘We'. That is, we who are His, who have come to believe in Jesus Christ as our Saviour and Lord, who come toge...
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 hu...
1 John 4:19 Originating Love. The love of all who love God is a consequence of God's love to them. I. By an act of creative power. All love in t...
1 John 4:1 . Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirit whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world...
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 worl...
1 John 4:1 . Beloved, believe not every spirit, A simpleton believes every word that he hears, but «the wise man's eyes are in his head,» so he...
1 John 4:9 . In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live throu...
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 fles...
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 Inc...
Perfection in brotherly love:
We love Him because He first loved us.
1 John 4:10 ; 2 Corinthians 5:14 ; 2 Corinthians 5:15 ; Ephesians 2:3-5 ; Galatians 5:22 ; John 15:16 ; John 3:16 ; Luke 7:47 ; Titus 3:3-5...
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 import...
The Love of God Chapter 1 John 4:7-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have always thought of the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians as the Love Chapter...
We love him, because he first loved us — This is the sum of all religion, the genuine model of Christianity. None can say more: why should any one...
19 We love him, because he first loved us.