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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

约翰壹书 2:4

凡是說“我已經認識他”,卻不遵守他命令的,就是說謊的人,真理就不在他裡面了。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blindness;   Confession;   Hypocrisy;   Obedience;   Righteousness;   Scofield Reference Index - Law of Christ;   World-System;   Thompson Chain Reference - Inconsistency;   Religion;   Religion, True-False;   The Topic Concordance - Disobedience;   Evangelism;   Fellowship;   Jesus Christ;   Love;   Lying/lies;   Obedience;   Truth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ignorance of God;   Lying;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Assurance;   Ethics;   Knowledge;   Law;   Lie;   Love;   Repentance;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Command, Commandment;   Death of Christ;   Education in Bible Times;   Lie, Lying;   Sanctification;   Truth;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Adoption;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - John, the Epistles of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - John, the Letters of;   Judgment Day;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - John, Epistles of;   Truth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Communion (2);   Gnosticism;   John Epistles of;   Lying ;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Johannine Theology, the;   John, the Epistles of;   Truth;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 5;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
人 若 说 我 认 识 他 , 却 不 遵 守 他 的 诫 命 , 便 是 说 谎 话 的 , 真 理 也 不 在 他 心 里 了 。

Contextual Overview

3 We can be sure that we know God if we obey his commands. 4 Anyone who says, "I know God," but does not obey God's commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. 5 But if someone obeys God's teaching, then in that person God's love has truly reached its goal. This is how we can be sure we are living in God: 6 Whoever says that he lives in God must live as Jesus lived.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that saith: 1 John 2:9, 1 John 1:6, 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10, 1 John 4:20, James 2:14-16

I know: Hosea 8:2, Hosea 8:3, Titus 1:16

is a: 1 John 1:6, 1 John 1:8

Reciprocal: Psalms 119:29 - Remove Psalms 119:166 - and done Proverbs 7:2 - Keep Proverbs 19:16 - keepeth the Jeremiah 22:16 - was not Daniel 11:32 - the people Hosea 5:4 - and Matthew 28:20 - them Luke 6:49 - that heareth John 7:28 - whom John 8:55 - shall John 15:21 - because 1 Corinthians 7:19 - but Galatians 4:9 - ye have Ephesians 1:17 - in the knowledge 1 John 2:3 - hereby 1 John 2:5 - whoso 1 John 2:6 - that saith 1 John 2:13 - because 1 John 2:22 - Who 1 John 3:6 - whosoever 1 John 4:8 - knoweth

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the sky and the earth.
Genesis 1:4
God saw that the light was good, so he divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said, "Have many children and grow in number. Fill the earth and be its master. Rule over the fish in the sea and over the birds in the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 1:31
God looked at everything he had made, and it was very good. Evening passed, and morning came. This was the sixth day.
Genesis 2:1
So the sky, the earth, and all that filled them were finished.
Genesis 2:2
By the seventh day God finished the work he had been doing, so he rested from all his work.
Genesis 5:1
This is the family history of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them in his own likeness.
Genesis 10:1
This is the family history of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah. After the flood these three men had sons.
Genesis 11:10
This is the family history of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, his son Arphaxad was born.
Genesis 25:12
This is the family history of Ishmael, Abraham's son. (Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian servant, was Ishmael's mother.)

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that saith I know him,.... God or Christ, as the Gnostics did, who pretended to great, even perfect, knowledge of divine things:

and keepeth not his commandments; which the above persons had no regard to, and as many who profess great light and knowledge in our days show no concern for:

is a liar; he contradicts what he says, and gives the lie to it; for though in words he professes to know God, in works he denies him, and which betrays his ignorance of him:

and the truth is not in him; there is no true knowledge of God and Christ in him; nor is the truth of the Gospel in his heart, however it may be in his head; nor is the truth of grace in him, for each of these lead persons to obedience. The Ethiopic version renders it, "the truth of God is not with him"; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He that saith, I know Him - He who professes to be acquainted with the Saviour, or who professes to be a Christian.

And keepeth not his commandments - What he has appointed to be observed by his people; that is, he who does not obey him.

Is a liar - Makes a false profession; professes to have that which he really has not. Such a profession is a falsehood, because there can be no true religion where one does not obey the law of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 John 2:4. He that saith, I know him — This is a severe blow against those false teachers, and against all pretenders to religious knowledge, who live under the power of their sins; and against all Antinomians, and false boasters in the righteousness of Christ as a covering for their personal unholiness. They are all liars, and no truth of God is in them.


 
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