1 John 3:16

Wells of Living Water Commentary - 1 John 3:1-24

Children of God 1 John 3:1-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS What a wonderful truth is this: "Now are we the sons of God." What! We who were once children of darkness, are now the children of light; we who were children of the wicked one, are now children of God. Yes, "Such we are." 1. We are children by being born again; that is, we are children by nature, and not by culture. "As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name: which were... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 3:16

THE CROSS AND SUFFERING‘Hereby know we love, because He laid down His life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.’ 1 John 3:16 (R.V.)‘Hereby know we love’—hereby, by the Cross of Christ, we know not only that love is, but also what love is; ‘because He laid down His life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.’ I. Hereby we learn that, in an imperfect world, love means self-sacrifice.—The Divine love, entering in the person of Jesus Christ, into this... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:11-24

The Centrality of Christian Love (1 John 3:11 to 1 John 4:21 ). The reference to loving one’s brother, deliberately added almost as an appendage in 1 John 3:10 in order to introduce the next section, now leads on to that section where love is pre-eminent. Previously any emphasis has been on God’s love for His own (1 John 2:5; 1 John 2:15; 1 John 3:1) although love of fellow-Christians has not been totally ignored (1 John 2:8-11), but from now on the thought becomes central. The emphasis has... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:16

‘By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.’ He now draws attention to what that love must be like. It is a love known through experience (‘we know’), for love is what Jesus showed in His life and practised, and through which we have benefited. Jesus, he points out, gave us an example of it, by laying down His life for us. He did the opposite to Cain. Instead of taking life He gave His life. It is therefore sacrificial love.... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:16-24

Exhortation That Our Christian Love Should be Practical (1 John 3:16-24 ). As throughout John is now concerned that those he speaks to should examine their hearts to ensure that they really are true Christians. He has been speaking of faith, but now he comes down to practicalities. And his word is that those who are truly Christ’s will reveal it practically in the way that they show love to their fellow-Christians. Indeed his concern is lest they be making a profession of being Christians and... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:14-24

1 John 3:13-Jeremiah : . The hatred of the world is to be expected, but within the Christian brotherhood there must be love, manifesting itself in deeds of self-sacrifice in imitation of Christ’ s love. If we possess this spirit we shall be able to silence inward misgivings as to our standing before God, because we obey Him in that we believe in Christ and love one another. Such obedience ensures His indwelling, attested by the gift of His Spirit. 1 John 3:14 . The teaching is the same as... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 John 3:16

He laid down his life for us: the intimate union between the Divine nature and the human in Christ, gives ground for the calling Christ’s life as man the life of God; as, Acts 20:28, his blood is said to be God’s own blood. And this testimony of God’s love to us, his laying down his life for us, ought so to transform us into his likeness, that out of the power of that Divine principle, the love of God in us, (so that implanted love is called, 1 John 3:17, the love of God), we should never... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 John 3:13-17

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES1 John 3:13. World hate yon.—The “world” includes all who are not actuated by the supreme motive, love to God. For “hate” read “hateth” (John 15:18).1 John 3:14. From death unto life.—Death is spiritual death in selfishness. Life is spiritual life in love for others, which finds expression in serving others.1 John 3:15. Is a murderer.—With distinct allusion to the case of Cain. “The first and the worst effect of hatred gives it its true character.”1 John 3:16.—Read,... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 1 John 3:16

DISCOURSE: 2448THE LOVE OF CHRIST A PATTERN FOR US, TO EACH OTHER1 John 3:16. Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.IN contemplating Christianity as a system, we scarcely know whether to admire more, the depth of its mysteries, or the height of its requirements. Of all mysteries, that specified in our text, the death of our incarnate God for the sins of men, is beyond all comparison the greatest: and, of all... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - 1 John 3:16

The Death of Christ for His People A Sermon Intended for Reading on Lord's-Day, January 7th, 1900, Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. On a Lord's-day Evening in the winter of 1857. "He laid down his life for us." 1 John 3:16 . SOME, believer and contemplate this sublime truth, thus proclaimed to thee in simple monosyllables: "He laid down his life for us." There is not one long word in the sentence; it is all as simple as it can be; and it is simple because it... read more

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