the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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THE MESSAGE
1 John 3:19
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This is how we will know that we belong to the truth and will reassure our hearts before him
And hereby wee know that wee are of the trueth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him;
We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will set our heart at ease before Him,
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We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before Him
And by this we will know that we belong to the truth, and will assure our hearts in His presence:
When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God.
Here is how we will know that we are from the truth and will set our hearts at rest in his presence:
And hereby we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him—
That's how we know we belong to the way of truth. And when our hearts make us feel guilty, we can still have peace before God, because God is greater than our hearts. He knows everything.
For thereby we know that we are of the trueth, and shal before him assure our hearts.
And by this we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before he comes.
This, then, is how we will know that we belong to the truth; this is how we will be confident in God's presence.
By this we know that we are of the truth and will convince our heart before him,
And in this we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before Him,
By this we will know [without any doubt] that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart and quiet our conscience before Him
Hereby shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him:
In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,
And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,
And this is how we will know that we belong to the truth and how we will be able to establish our hearts in his presence.John 18:37; 1 John 1:8;">[xr]
And by this we make known that we are of the truth, and before that he cometh we make confident our hearts.
And by this, we recognize that we are of the truth; and, before he shall come, we make our hearts confident.
Hereby we knowe that we are of the trueth, and shall assure our heartes before hym.
Hereby shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him,
And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,
And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
And in this way we shall come to know that we are loyal to the truth, and shall satisfy our consciences in His presence
In this thing we knowen, that we ben of treuthe, and in his siyt we monesten oure hertis.
And hereby we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him:
And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,
And by this we know [fn] that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.
Our actions will show that we belong to the truth, so we will be confident when we stand before God.
This is how we know we are Christians. It will give our heart comfort for sure when we stand before Him.
And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before him
Hereby, shall we get to know, that, of the truth, we are, and, before him, shall persuade our heart;
In this we know that we are of the truth and in his sight shall persuade our hearts.
By this we shall know that we are of the truth, and reassure our hearts before him
for therby we knowe that we are of the veritie and can before him quiet oure hertes.
and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,
Hereby knowe we, that we are of the verite, and can quyete oure hertes before him.
Hereby we shall know that we are true professors, and set our consciences securely at rest.
What we do will show the truth of our ride. When we stand before God, we will be confident in our ride with Jesus.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
hereby: 1 John 3:14, 1 John 1:8, John 13:35, John 18:37
shall: 1 John 3:21, Isaiah 32:17, Hebrews 6:10, Hebrews 6:11, Hebrews 10:22
assure: Gr. persuade, Romans 4:21, Romans 8:38, 2 Timothy 1:12, Hebrews 11:13
Reciprocal: Job 8:6 - thou wert Job 11:15 - lift up Job 31:37 - as a Psalms 119:56 - because Proverbs 20:27 - spirit Daniel 6:22 - forasmuch Matthew 28:20 - them Luke 7:5 - and John 19:27 - took Romans 2:15 - accusing Romans 8:16 - with our Romans 9:1 - my conscience Romans 14:5 - persuaded 2 Corinthians 1:12 - our rejoicing 2 Corinthians 5:1 - we know Galatians 6:4 - rejoicing Colossians 2:2 - of the full Hebrews 10:19 - Having 1 Peter 3:8 - love as brethren 2 Peter 1:10 - to make 1 John 2:3 - hereby 1 John 4:17 - we may
Cross-References
The Man said, "The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it." God said to the Woman, "What is this that you've done?"
"The serpent seduced me," she said, "and I ate."
He told the Woman: "I'll multiply your pains in childbirth; you'll give birth to your babies in pain. You'll want to please your husband, but he'll lord it over you."
God made leather clothing for Adam and his wife and dressed them.
God said, "The Man has become like one of us, capable of knowing everything, ranging from good to evil. What if he now should reach out and take fruit from the Tree-of-Life and eat, and live forever? Never—this cannot happen!"
Abraham came back, "Do I, a mere mortal made from a handful of dirt, dare open my mouth again to my Master? What if the fifty fall short by five—would you destroy the city because of those missing five?" He said, "I won't destroy it if there are forty-five."
Naked I came from my mother's womb, naked I'll return to the womb of the earth. God gives, God takes. God's name be ever blessed.
All the power-mongers are before him —worshiping! All the poor and powerless, too —worshiping! Along with those who never got it together —worshiping!
So don't return us to mud, saying, "Back to where you came from!" Patience! You've got all the time in the world—whether a thousand years or a day, it's all the same to you. Are we no more to you than a wispy dream, no more than a blade of grass That springs up gloriously with the rising sun and is cut down without a second thought? Your anger is far and away too much for us; we're at the end of our rope. You keep track of all our sins; every misdeed since we were children is entered in your books. All we can remember is that frown on your face. Is that all we're ever going to get? We live for seventy years or so (with luck we might make it to eighty), And what do we have to show for it? Trouble. Toil and trouble and a marker in the graveyard. Who can make sense of such rage, such anger against the very ones who fear you?
Whoever wanders off the straight and narrow ends up in a congregation of ghosts.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And hereby we know that we are of the truth,.... By the saints loving one another in deed and in truth, they know, as the cause is known by the effect, that they are of God, who is the true God, the God of truth, and cannot lie, and is truth itself; that they are the children of God, and are born of him, since they love those that are, and every like loves its like; and that they are of Jesus Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life; that they belong to him, are his, since they have his Spirit, as appears by his fruits in them, and this, among the rest, love to the brethren; and that they are his disciples, which others, even all men know, as well as themselves, by their mutual brotherly love; and that they are of the Gospel, which is truth, and the word of truth; that they are begotten, and born again, according to the will and grace of God by it, and are on the side of it, and can do nothing against, but all for it; and that they are true, sincere, and upright persons, true believers in Christ, whose faith works by love, and are real lovers of him, and his, since they love not in word only, but in deed and in truth.
And shall assure our hearts before him; or "persuade our hearts": arrive to a full assurance of faith, hope, and understanding, that we are of the truth, do belong to God, are loved by him with an everlasting love, are chosen by him unto salvation, and are his adopted and regenerated ones, having passed from death to life, of which brotherly love is a sure evidence, 1 John 3:14. Some render the words "shall pacify", or "make our hearts tranquil": or "quiet"; this only the blood of Christ can do, and does, being sprinkled on the conscience: he only has a quiet mind, or true peace of conscience, that looks to the righteousness of Christ for justification, and deals with his blood for the full and free remission of his sins: it is true indeed, that one that loves his brother heartily and sincerely, has peace of mind in it, though not for it; when, on the other hand, there is no peace to the wicked man, that hates his brother; for where there is envying, malice, hatred, and strife, there is no true peace, pleasure, and comfort, but confusion, uneasiness, distraction, and every evil work. Or this passage may refer to that holy confidence before God, which true believers in Christ, and cordial lovers of the brethren, have; both now at the throne of grace, where they can come with boldness, intrepidity, and freedom, to ask for what they want, and confidently believe they shall receive what is proper and needful for them; and also hereafter, at the throne of judgment, and in the day of judgment, when they shall have boldness, and not be ashamed before the Judge at his coming; who will particularly take notice of their love in feeding, clothing, and visiting the least of his brethren, which he takes as done to himself.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And hereby - Greek, “by this;” that is, by the fact that we have true love to others, and that we manifest it by a readiness to make sacrifices to do them good.
We know that we are of the truth - That we are not deceived in what we profess to be; that is, that we are true Christians. To be of the truth stands opposed to cherishing false and delusive hopes.
And shall assure our hearts before him - Before God, or before the Saviour. In the margin, as in the Greek, the word rendered “shall assure,” is “persuade.” The Greek word is used as meaning to “persuade,” e. g., to the reception and belief of truth; then to persuade anyone who has unkind or prejudiced feelings toward us, or to bring over to kind feelings, “to conciliate,” and thus to pacify or quiet. The meaning here seems to be, that we shall in this way allay the doubts and trouble of our minds, and produce a state of quiet and peace, to wit, by the evidence that we are of the truth. Our consciences are often restless and troubled in view of past guilt; but, in thus furnishing the evidence of true piety by love to others, we shall pacify an accusing mind, and conciliate our own hearts, and persuade or convince ourselves that we are truly the children of God. See Robinson, Lexicon, sub voce πείθω peithō, I. b. In other words, though a person’s heart may condemn him as guilty, and though he knows that God sees and condemns the sins of his past life, yet the agitations and alarms of his mind may be calmed down and soothed by evidence that he is a child of God, and that he will not be finally condemned. A true Christian does not attempt to conceal the fact that there is much for which his own heart and conscience might justly accuse him but he finds, notwithstanding all this, evidence that he is a child of God, and he is persuaded that all will be well.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 19. Hereby we know that we are of the truth — That we have the true religion of the Lord Jesus, and shall assure our hearts-be persuaded in our consciences, that we have the truth as it is in Jesus; as no man can impose upon himself by imagining he loves when he does not: he may make empty professions to others, but if he loves either God or man, he knows it because he feels it; and love unfelt is not love, it is word or tongue. This the apostle lays down as a test of a man's Christianity, and it is the strongest and most infallible test that can be given. He that loves feels that he does love; and he who feels that he loves God and man has true religion; and he who is careful to show the fruits of this love, in obedience to God and humane acts to man, gives others the fullest proof that he has the loving mind that was in Jesus.
