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1 John 5:2

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Love;   Obedience;   Righteousness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Children;   Church;   Love;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Law;   Love;   Obedience;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Command, Commandment;   Family Life and Relations;   Love;   Sanctification;   Holman Bible Dictionary - John, the Letters of;   Only Begotten;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Children (Sons) of God;   John, Epistles of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Brotherly Love;   Commandment;   John, Gospel of (Critical);   Sanctify, Sanctification;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - John the Baptist;   Regeneration;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Brotherly Kindness;   John, the Epistles of;   Regeneration;   Sons of God (New Testament);  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for March 5;  

Contextual Overview

1 Everyone who believes that Yeshua is the Messiah has God as his father, and everyone who loves a father loves his offspring too. 1 Every one that believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God; and every one that loves him that has begotten loves also him that is begotten of him. 1 Whoever believes that Yeshua is the Messiah is born of God. Whoever loves the father also loves the child who is born of him. 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ[fn] has been born from God, and everyone who loves the parent also loves the child.John 1:12-13; 15:23; 1 John 2:22-23;">[xr] 1 WHOSOEVER believeth that Jeshu is the Meshiha of Aloha is born. And every one who loveth the Generator loveth also him who is generated of him. 1 Whoever believeth that Jesus is the Messiah, is born of God. And whoever loveth the begetter, loveth him also that is begotten of him. 1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 1 Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child. 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. 1 VVhosoeuer beleeueth that Iesus is that Christ, is borne of God: and euery one that loueth him, which begate, loueth him also which is begotten of him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
3:22-24; 4:21; John 13:34,35; 15:17
Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:9 - GeneralDeuteronomy 5:10 - love me;  Deuteronomy 10:12 - love;  Deuteronomy 11:22 - to love;  Deuteronomy 14:1 - the children;  Deuteronomy 26:16 - keep;  Deuteronomy 30:16 - to love;  Joshua 22:5 - love;  Judges 5:31 - them that;  1 Kings 3:3 - loved;  Psalm 97:10 - Ye that;  Psalm 116:1 - love;  Ezekiel 18:5 - if;  Daniel 9:4 - the great;  Matthew 22:37 - GeneralMatthew 25:40 - Inasmuch;  John 8:42 - If;  John 14:15 - GeneralRomans 8:28 - them;  Romans 12:10 - kindly;  1 Corinthians 7:19 - but;  1 Corinthians 8:3 - love;  Philemon 1:5 - toward the Lord;  1 Peter 1:22 - unto;  1 John 3:10 - the children of God;  1 John 3:14 - We know;  Revelation 12:17 - which

Cross-References

Genesis 1:27
And God created Man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:27
So God created humans in his own image. He created them to be like himself. He created them male and female.
Genesis 1:27
God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:27
And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.
Genesis 1:27
And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.
Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his owne image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:27
Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them male and female.
Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:27
So God created human beings, making them to be like himself. He created them male and female,
Genesis 1:27
And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

By this we know that we are the children God,.... The Ethiopic version reads, "by this know that we love God"; which, in connection with what follows, makes a tautology, and is a proving "idem per idem": whereas the apostle's view is to show when love to the saints is right; and that is,

when we love God, and keep his commandments: love to the brethren may arise from such a cause, as may show that it is not brotherly love, or of a spiritual kind; it may arise from natural relation, or civil friendship, or from a benefit or favour received from them, and from some natural external excellency seen in them; and a man may do acts of love and kindness to the brethren, from what may be called good nature in himself, or with sinister views; but true love to the brethren springs from love to God: such who love the saints aright, and by which they may know they do so, they love them because they themselves love God, and in obedience to his command; they love them because they belong to God, and are the objects of his love; because his grace is wrought in them, and his image stamped upon them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By this we know that we love the children of God … - This is repeating the same truth in another form. “As it is universally true that if we love Him who has begotten us, we shall also love His children, or our Christian brethren, so it is true also that if we love His children it will follow that we love Him.” In other places, the apostle says that we may know that we love God if we love those who bear His image, 1 John 3:14. He here says, that there is another way of determining what we are. We may have undoubted evidence that we love God, and from that, as the basis of an argument, we may infer that we have true love to His children. Of the fact that we may have evidence that we love God, apart from that which we derive from our love to His children, there can be no doubt. We may be conscious of it; we may find pleasure in meditating on His perfections; we may feel sure that we are moved to obey Him by true attachment to Him, as a child may in reference to a father. But, it may be asked, how can it be inferred from this that we truly love His children? Is it not easier to ascertain this of itself than it is to determine whether we love God? Compare 1 John 4:20. To this it may be answered, that we may love Christians from many motives: we may love them as personal friends; we may love them because they belong to our church, or sect, or party; we may love them because they are naturally amiable: but the apostle says here, that when we are conscious that an attachment does exist toward Christians, we may ascertain that it is genuine, or that it does not proceed from any improper motive, by the fact that we love God. We shall then love Him as His children, whatever other grounds of affection there may be toward them.

And keep his commandments - See the notes at John 14:15.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

By this we know that we love the children of God - Our love of God's followers is a proof that we love God. Our love to God is the cause why we love his children, and our keeping the commandments of God is the proof that we love him.


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