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Selected Verse: 1 John 4:7 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
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| 1Jo 4:7 |
Strong Concordance |
Beloved [27], let us love [25] one another [240]: for [3754] love [26] is [2076] of [1537] God [2316]; and [2532] every one [3956] that loveth [25] is born [1080] of [1537] God [2316], and [2532] knoweth [1097] God [2316]. |
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King James |
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. |
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] |
Resumption of the main theme (Jo1 2:29). Love, the sum of righteousness, is the test of our being born of God. Love flows from a sense of God's love to us: compare Jo1 4:9 with Jo1 3:16, which Jo1 4:9 resumes; and Jo1 4:13 with Jo1 3:24, which similarly Jo1 4:13 resumes. At the same time, Jo1 4:7-21 is connected with the immediately preceding context, Jo1 4:2 setting forth Christ's incarnation, the great proof of God's love (Jo1 4:10).
Beloved--an address appropriate to his subject, "love."
love--All love is from God as its fountain: especially that embodiment of love, God manifest in the flesh. The Father also is love (Jo1 4:8). The Holy Ghost sheds love as its first fruit abroad in the heart.
knoweth God--spiritually, experimentally, and habitually. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Beloved, let us love one another - This verse introduces a new topic, the consideration of which occupies the remainder of the chapter. See the Analysis. The subject is one on which John dwells more than on any other - that of love. His own character especially inclined him to the exercise of love; and the remarkable affection which the Lord Jesus had shown for him, seems to have had the effect to give this grace a special prominence in his views of what constituted true religion. Compare Joh 13:23. On the duty here enjoined, see the Joh 13:34-35 notes, and Jo1 3:11, Jo1 3:23 notes.
For love is of God -
(1) All true love has its origin in God.
(2) real love shows that we have his Spirit, and that we belong to him.
(3) it assimilates us to God, or makes us more and more like him.
What is here said by the apostle is based on the truth of what he elsewhere affirms, Jo1 4:8, that God is love. Hatred, envy, wrath, malice, all have their source in something else than God. He neither originates them, commends them, nor approves them.
And everyone that loveth, is born of God - Is a regenerated man. That is, everyone who has true love to Christians as such, or true brotherly love, is a true Christian. This cannot mean that everyone that loves his wife and children, his classmate, his partner in business, or his friend - his house, or his farms, or his horses, or his hounds, is a child of God; it must be understood as referring to the point under discussion. A man may have a great deal of natural affection toward his kindred; a great deal of benevolence in his character toward the poor and needy, and still he may have none of the love to which John refers. He may have no real love to God, to the Saviour, or to the children of God as such; and it would be absurd for such a one to argue because he loves his wife and children that therefore he loves God, or is born again. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Of God (ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ)
Flows from God. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Let us love one another - From the doctrine he has just been defending he draws this exhortation. It is by the Spirit that the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts. Every one that truly loveth God and his neighbour is born of God. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Beloved, let us love one another - And ever be ready to promote each other's welfare, both spiritual and temporal.
For love is of God - And ever acts like him; he loves man, and daily loads him with his benefits. He that loveth most has most of God in him; and he that loveth God and his neighbor, as before described and commanded, is born of God, εκ του Θεου γεγεννηται, is begotten of God - is a true child of his heavenly Father, for he is made a partaker of the Divine nature; and this his love to God and man proves. |
8 He that loveth [25] not [3361] knoweth [1097] not [3756] God [2316]; for [3754] God [2316] is [2076] love [26].
10 Herein [1722] [5129] is [2076] love [26], not [3754] that [3756] we [2249] loved [25] God [2316], but [235] that [3754] he [846] loved [25] us [2248], and [2532] sent [649] his [846] Son [5207] to be the propitiation [2434] for [4012] our [2257] sins [266].
2 Hereby [1722] [3739] [5129] know ye [1097] the Spirit [4151] of God [2316]: Every [3956] spirit [4151] that confesseth [3670] that Jesus [2424] Christ [5547] is come [2064] in [1722] the flesh [4561] is [2076] of [1537] God [2316]:
7 Beloved [27], let us love [25] one another [240]: for [3754] love [26] is [2076] of [1537] God [2316]; and [2532] every one [3956] that loveth [25] is born [1080] of [1537] God [2316], and [2532] knoweth [1097] God [2316].
8 He that loveth [25] not [3361] knoweth [1097] not [3756] God [2316]; for [3754] God [2316] is [2076] love [26].
9 In [1722] this [5129] was manifested [5319] the love [26] of God [2316] toward [1722] us [2254], because [3754] that God [2316] sent [649] his [846] only begotten [3439] Son [5207] into [1519] the world [2889], that [2443] we might live [2198] through [1223] him [846].
10 Herein [1722] [5129] is [2076] love [26], not [3754] that [3756] we [2249] loved [25] God [2316], but [235] that [3754] he [846] loved [25] us [2248], and [2532] sent [649] his [846] Son [5207] to be the propitiation [2434] for [4012] our [2257] sins [266].
11 Beloved [27], if [1487] God [2316] so [3779] loved [25] us [2248], we [2249] ought [3784] also [2532] to love [25] one another [240].
12 No man [3762] hath seen [2300] God [2316] at any time [4455]. If [1437] we love [25] one another [240], God [2316] dwelleth [3306] in [1722] us [2254], and [2532] his [846] love [26] is [2076] perfected [5048] in [1722] us [2254].
13 Hereby [1722] [5129] know we [1097] that [3754] we dwell [3306] in [1722] him [846], and [2532] he [846] in [1722] us [2254], because [3754] he hath given [1325] us [2254] of [1537] his [846] Spirit [4151].
14 And [2532] we [2249] have seen [2300] and [2532] do testify [3140] that [3754] the Father [3962] sent [649] the Son [5207] to be the Saviour [4990] of the world [2889].
15 Whosoever [3739] [302] shall confess [3670] that [3754] Jesus [2424] is [2076] the Son [5207] of God [2316], God [2316] dwelleth [3306] in [1722] him [846], and [2532] he [846] in [1722] God [2316].
16 And [2532] we [2249] have known [1097] and [2532] believed [4100] the love [26] that [3739] God [2316] hath [2192] to [1722] us [2254]. God [2316] is [2076] love [26]; and [2532] he that dwelleth [3306] in [1722] love [26] dwelleth [3306] in [1722] God [2316], and [2532] God [2316] in [1722] him [846].
17 Herein [1722] [5129] is our [3326] [2257] love [26] made perfect [5048], that [2443] we may have [2192] boldness [3954] in [1722] the day [2250] of judgment [2920]: because [3754] as [2531] he [1565] is [2076], so [2532] are [2070] we [2249] in [1722] this [5129] world [2889].
18 There is [2076] no [3756] fear [5401] in [1722] love [26]; but [235] perfect [5046] love [26] casteth [906] out [1854] fear [5401]: because [3754] fear [5401] hath [2192] torment [2851]. [1161] He that feareth [5399] is [5048] not [3756] made perfect [5048] in [1722] love [26].
19 We [2249] love [25] him [846], because [3754] he [846] first [4413] loved [25] us [2248].
20 If [1437] a man [5100] say [2036], [3754] I love [25] God [2316], and [2532] hateth [3404] his [846] brother [80], he is [2076] a liar [5583]: for [1063] he that loveth [25] not [3361] his [846] brother [80] whom [3739] he hath seen [3708], how [4459] can [1410] he love [25] God [2316] whom [3739] he hath [3708] not [3756] seen [3708]?
21 And [2532] this [5026] commandment [1785] have we [2192] from [575] him [846], That [2443] he who loveth [25] God [2316] love [25] his [846] brother [80] also [2532].
13 Hereby [1722] [5129] know we [1097] that [3754] we dwell [3306] in [1722] him [846], and [2532] he [846] in [1722] us [2254], because [3754] he hath given [1325] us [2254] of [1537] his [846] Spirit [4151].
24 And [2532] he that keepeth [5083] his [846] commandments [1785] dwelleth [3306] in [1722] him [846], and [2532] he [846] in [1722] him [846]. And [2532] hereby [1722] [5129] we know [1097] that [3754] he abideth [3306] in [1722] us [2254], by [1537] the Spirit [4151] which [3739] he hath given [1325] us [2254].
13 Hereby [1722] [5129] know we [1097] that [3754] we dwell [3306] in [1722] him [846], and [2532] he [846] in [1722] us [2254], because [3754] he hath given [1325] us [2254] of [1537] his [846] Spirit [4151].
9 In [1722] this [5129] was manifested [5319] the love [26] of God [2316] toward [1722] us [2254], because [3754] that God [2316] sent [649] his [846] only begotten [3439] Son [5207] into [1519] the world [2889], that [2443] we might live [2198] through [1223] him [846].
16 Hereby [1722] [5129] perceive we [1097] the love [26] of God, because [3754] he [1565] laid down [5087] his [846] life [5590] for [5228] us [2257]: and [2532] we [2249] ought [3784] to lay down [5087] our lives [5590] for [5228] the brethren [80].
9 In [1722] this [5129] was manifested [5319] the love [26] of God [2316] toward [1722] us [2254], because [3754] that God [2316] sent [649] his [846] only begotten [3439] Son [5207] into [1519] the world [2889], that [2443] we might live [2198] through [1223] him [846].
29 If [1437] ye know [1492] that [3754] he is [2076] righteous [1342], ye know [1097] that [3754] every one [3956] that doeth [4160] righteousness [1343] is born [1080] of [1537] him [846].
8 He that loveth [25] not [3361] knoweth [1097] not [3756] God [2316]; for [3754] God [2316] is [2076] love [26].
23 And [2532] this [3778] is [2076] his [846] commandment [1785], That [2443] we should believe [4100] on the name [3686] of his [846] Son [5207] Jesus [2424] Christ [5547], and [2532] love [25] one another [240], as [2531] he gave [1325] us [2254] commandment [1785].
11 For [3754] this [3778] is [2076] the message [31] that [3739] ye heard [191] from [575] the beginning [746], that [2443] we should love [25] one another [240].
34 A new [2537] commandment [1785] I give [1325] unto you [5213], That [2443] ye love [25] one another [240]; as [2531] I have loved [25] you [5209], that [2443] ye [5210] also [2532] love [25] one another [240].
35 By [1722] this [5129] shall [1097] all [3956] men know [1097] that [3754] ye are [2075] my [1699] disciples [3101], if [1437] ye have [2192] love [26] one to another [1722] [240].
23 Now [1161] there was [2258] leaning [345] on [1722] Jesus [2424]' bosom [2859] one [1520] of his [846] disciples [3101], whom [3739] Jesus [2424] loved [25].