1 John 4:16

1 Corinthians 2:9; 1 John 3:1; 1 John 3:16; 1 John 3:24; 1 John 4:10; 1 John 4:12; 1 John 4:13; 1 John 4:8; 1 John 4:9; Isaiah 64:4; Psalms 18:1-3; Psalms 31:19; Psalms 36:7-9

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And we have known and believed ... - We all have assurance that God has loved us, and the fullest belief in the great fact of redemption by which...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. (12) God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. (12) A...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

believed . have believed. App-150. to . in. App-104. Compare 1 John 4:9 .
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

16 And we have known and believed It is the same as though he had said, “We have known by believing;” for such knowledge is not attained but...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2457 THE DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER OF A CHRISTIAN 1 John 4:16 . We have known and believed the love that God hath to us . NEVER was ther...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. God is love -...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. And w...
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 .
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...
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 fu...
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 t...
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 Go...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

LOVE’S CROWN ‘God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.’ 1 John 4:16 It is a distinction between Christians...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And we have known and believed ,.... Or have a full assurance and knowledge of, and faith in, the love that God hath to us ; shown as in many inst...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 16....
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 resol...
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 opera...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Divine Love. A. D. 80. 14 And we have...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Inasmuch as the transformative efficacy of God's love upon us depends upon our certain apprehension of it, he doubles the expression of that certaint...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And we know and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.' John want...
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 hu...
Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 4:8 , 1 John 4:16 I. God is love. The text takes us up, as it were, above the veil; we are caught up through the door of this vision to...
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 worl...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
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 worl...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
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 fles...
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 Inc...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Dwelling in God and in His love:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. The love which God showed to us in Christ is the eternal type and pattern of perfect lo...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Perfection in brotherly love:
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 import...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

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...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And we know and believe — By the same Spirit, the love that God hath to us.

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.

Related Commentaries of 1 John 4:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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