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1 John 5:10

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Faith;   Jesus Continued;   Righteousness;   Truth;   Unbelief;   Scofield Reference Index - Faith;   Thompson Chain Reference - Assurance;   The Topic Concordance - Belief;   Unbelief;   Witness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Truth of God, the;   Unbelief;   Witness of the Holy Spirit;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Faith;   Unbelief;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Inspiration;   Jesus christ;   Son of god;   Witness;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jesus Christ, Name and Titles of;   Testimony;   Time;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Baptism;   Faith;   John, the Epistles of;   Revelation of John, the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - John, the Letters of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - John, Epistles of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - God;   Life and Death;   Lying ;   Name (2);   Witness;   Witness (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Witness;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Belief;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Give;   John, the Epistles of;   Witness of the Spirit;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for September 24;   Every Day Light - Devotion for November 5;  

Contextual Overview

10 Those who keep trusting in the Son of God have this witness in them. Those who do not keep trusting God have made him out to be a liar, because they have not trusted in the witness which God has given about his Son. 10 He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has witnessed concerning his Son. 10 He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in him. He who doesn't believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son. 10 The person who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in himself. The person who does not believe Godthe Son">[fn] has made him a liar by not believing the testimony that God has given about his Son.John 3:33; 5:38; Romans 8:16; Galatians 4:6;">[xr] 10 Whosoever believeth in the Son of Aloha hath this testimony in himself. Every one who believeth not Aloha hath made him a liar, in not believing the testimony that he hath testified concerning his Son. 10 Whoever believeth in the Son of God, hath this testimony in himself. And whoever believeth not God, hath made him a liar, by not believing the testimony which God hath testified concerning his Son. 10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in him: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he hath not believed in the witness that God hath borne concerning his Son. 10 He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son. 10 Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. 10 He that beleeueth in yt Sonne of God, hath the witnes in himselfe: he that beleeueth not God, hath made him a lyar, because he beleeued not ye record, that God witnessed of that his Sonne.

Bible Verse Review
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He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
that believeth on 1; John 3:16
hath the
Psalms 25:14; Proverbs 3:32; Romans 8:16; Galatians 4:6; Colossians 3:3; 2 Peter 1:19; Revelation 2:17,28
hath made
1:10; Numbers 23:19; Job 24:25; Isaiah 53:1; Jeremiah 15:18; John 3:33; 5:38; Hebrews 3:12
Reciprocal: Psalm 78:22 - GeneralIsaiah 7:9 - If ye;  Jeremiah 5:12 - have belied;  Habakkuk 2:4 - but;  Mark 16:16 - that believeth and;  John 3:18 - he that believeth not;  John 3:36 - that believeth on;  John 7:28 - is true;  John 8:55 - shall;  John 9:25 - one;  John 9:35 - Dost;  John 11:26 - whosoever;  John 14:1 - ye;  John 20:31 - these;  Acts 8:37 - I believe;  Acts 16:31 - Believe;  Romans 1:3 - his Son;  Romans 3:4 - let God;  Galatians 2:20 - the Son;  Ephesians 2:8 - through;  Ephesians 4:21 - as;  1 Timothy 4:10 - specially;  Titus 3:8 - which;  Hebrews 3:19 - GeneralHebrews 6:1 - faith;  Hebrews 6:18 - impossible;  1 Peter 5:12 - testifying;  1 John 1:3 - with his;  1 John 2:15 - Love not;  1 John 5:7 - bear;  1 John 5:9 - we;  1 John 5:11 - this;  1 John 5:13 - ye may know;  1 John 5:19 - we know;  Revelation 12:17 - and have;  Revelation 19:10 - the testimony;  Revelation 21:8 - the fearful

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that believeth on the Son of God,.... As a divine person who came in the flesh, and obeyed the law, and brought in everlasting righteousness, and obtained life and salvation for men: he that with the heart believes in him for righteousness, and eternal life, he being the Son of God, truly and properly God, and so able to save all that believe in him,

hath the witness in himself; of the need he stands in of Christ, and of the suitableness, fulness, and excellency of him; the Spirit of God enlightening him into the impurity of his nature, his impotence to do anything spiritually good, his incapacity to atone for sin, and the insufficiency of his righteousness to justify him before God; and convincing him that nothing but the blood of the Son of God can cleanse him from sin, and only his sacrifice can expiate it, and his righteousness justify him from it, and that without him he can do nothing; testifying also to the efficacy of his blood, the completeness of his sacrifice and satisfaction, the excellency of his righteousness, and the energy of his grace and strength: so he comes to have such a witness in himself, that if ten thousand arguments were ever so artfully formed, in favour of the purity of human nature, the power of man's free will, and the sufficiency of his righteousness, and against the sacrifice and righteousness of Christ, the dignity of his person, as the Son of God, which gives virtue to his blood, sacrifice, and righteousness, they would all signify nothing to him, he would be proof against them. And such an one very readily receives into him the testimony God gives of his Son, of the glory and excellency of his person, and retains it in him. The Alexandrian copy and the Vulgate Latin version read, "hath the witness of God in him"; to which the Ethiopic, version agrees, and confirm the last observation:

he that believeth not God; does not receive his testimony concerning his Son: the Alexandrian copy, and two of Stephens's, and the Vulgate Latin version read, "he that believeth not the Son"; and the Ethiopic version, his Son; and the Arabic version, "the Son of God"; and so is a direct antithesis to the phrase in the former clause of the verse:

hath made him a liar; not the Son, but God, as the Arabic version renders it, "hath made God himself a liar"; who is the God, of truth, and cannot lie; it is impossible he should; and as nothing can be, more contumelious and reproachful to the being and nature of God, so nothing can more fully expose and aggravate the sin of unbelief, with respect to Christ, as the Son of God:

because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son; at the times and places before observed.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself - The evidence that Jesus is the Son of God. Compare the notes at Romans 8:16. This cannot refer to any distinct and immediate “revelation” of that fact, that Jesus is the Christ, to the soul of the individual, and is not to be understood as independent of the external evidence of that truth, or as superseding the necessity of that evidence; but the “witness” here referred to is the fruit of all the evidence, external and internal, on the heart, producing this result; that is, there is the deepest conviction of the truth that Jesus is the Son of God. There is the evidence derived from the fact that the soul has found peace by believing on him; from the fact that the troubles and anxieties of the mind on account of sin have been removed by faith in Christ; from the new views of God and heaven which have resulted from faith in the Lord Jesus; from the effect of this in disarming death of its terrors; and from the whole influence of the gospel on the intellect and the affections - on the heart and the life. These things constitute a mass of evidence for the truth of the Christian religion, whose force the believer cannot resist, and make the sincere Christian ready to sacrifice anything rather than his religion; ready to go to the stake rather than to renounce his Saviour. Compare the notes at 1 Peter 3:15.

He that believeth not God hath made him a liar - Compare the notes at 1 John 1:10.

Because he believeth not the record … - The idea is, that in various ways - at his baptism, at his death, by the influences of the Holy Spirit, by the miracles of Jesus, etc. - God had become a “witness” that the Lord Jesus was sent by him as a Saviour, and that to doubt or deny this partook of the same character as doubting or denying any other testimony; that is, it was practically charging him who bore the testimony with falsehood.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

He that believeth on the Son of God - This is God's witness to a truth, the most important and interesting to mankind. God has witnessed that whosoever believeth on his Son shall be saved, and have everlasting life; and shall have the witness of it in himself, the Spirit bearing witness with his spirit that he is a child of God. To know, to feel his sin forgiven, to have the testimony of this in the heart from the Holy Spirit himself, is the privilege of every true believer in Christ.


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