1 John 5:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 JOHN CHAPTER 5 1 John 5:1-3 He that loveth God loveth God's children, and keeth his commandments. 1 John 5:4,5 A true faith will enable us to overcome the world. 1 John 5:6-10 The witnesses of our faith. 1 John 5:11-13 God hath given to believers eternal life through his Son, 1 John 5:14-17 and will hear and grant their petitions, made according to his will. 1 John 5:18-20 God's children are distinguished from the world by abstaining from sin, and by a right knowledge. 1 John 5:21 A caution against idolatry. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ; this is not meant of a mere professed, or of a slight and superficial, but of a lively, efficacious, unitive, soul-transforming, and obediential faith in Jesus as the Christ, which is elsewhere made the effect of the regenerating power and grace of God, 1 Thessalonians 1:12,13. And as nothing can be more connatural to such a heaven-born faith, than the loving of him that hath begotten us to it; so nothing can be more certainly consequent and agreeable, than the loving of them too who are begotten also of the same Father, viz. with a correspondent love to the more excellent characters and image of God upon them, than are upon other men.