1 John 2:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 John 2:5

whoso: 1 John 2:3, 1 John 2:4, Psalms 105:45, Psalms 106:3, Psalms 119:2, Psalms 119:4, Psalms 119:146, Proverbs 8:32, Proverbs 28:7, Ecclesiastes 8:5, Ezekiel 36:27, Luke 11:28, John 14:21, John 14:23, Revelation 12:17, Revelation 14:12 in him: 1 John 4:12, 1 John 4:18, James 2:22 hereby: 1 John 2:27, 1 John 2:28, 1 John 3:24, 1 John 4:13, 1 John 4:15, 1 John 4:16, 1 John 5:20, John 6:56, John 15:5, Romans 8:1, 1 Corinthians 1:30, 2 Corinthians 5:17, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Colossians 2:9,... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 1 John 2:5

But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.But whoso keepeth his word — His commandments.Verily in him the love of God — Reconciled to us through Christ.Is perfected — Is perfectly known.Hereby — By our keeping his word.We know that we are in him — So is the tree known by its fruits. To "know him," to be "in him," to "abide in him," are nearly synonymous terms; only with a gradation,-knowledge, communion, constancy. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 2:3-14

2. Yet for the claimant of the divine purity the test is abstinence from all sinning, 1 John 2:3-14. It might at first be supposed that a ready advocate and propitiation for the believer’s sins might furnish easy license for sin. And separating that fact from its proper conditions, one may abuse it for antinomianism. St. Paul met the same objection, that we may abound in sin that the grace of propitiation may abound, in the same way as John does here. Romans 6:1, where see notes. Our... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 2:5

5. But Returning to the affirmative in earnest repetition, with emphasis on verily and know. Keepeth By not only remembering, but obeying. Love of God perfected By being brought into full force and action. Perfected In the same degree that it is effective in making us keep his word. Hereby Referring to keepeth his word. Know we We do most completely know that we know… him, or (what is the same thing, and more) are in him. In him In Christ, by communion, and thereby in God. read more

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 John 2:5

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 1 John 2:5

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 2:3-14

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 2:5

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