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Selected Verse: 1 John 4:11 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
1Jo 4:11 |
King James |
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
God's love to us is the grand motive for our love to one another (Jo1 3:16).
if--as we all admit as a fact.
we . . . also--as being born of God, and therefore resembling our Father who is love. In proportion as we appreciate God's love to us, we love Him and also the brethren, the children (by regeneration) of the same God, the representatives of the unseen God. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another -
(1) Because he is so much exalted above us, and if he has loved those who were so inferior and so unworthy, we ought to love those who are on a level with us;
(2) because it is only in this way that we can show that we have his Spirit; and,
(3) because it is the nature of love to seek the happiness of all. There are much stronger reasons why we should love one another than there were why God should love us; and unless we do this, we can have no evidence that we are his children. |
Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
So (οὕτως)
Emphatic.
We ought
See on Jo1 2:6. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
If God so loved us - Without any reason or consideration on our part, and without any desert in us; we ought also, in like manner, to love one another, and not suspend our love to a fellow-creature, either on his moral worth or his love to us. We should love one another for God's sake; and then, no unkind carriage of a brother would induce us to withdraw our love from him; for if it have God for its motive and model, it will never fail. |
16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.