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Gill's Exposition
Beloved, if God so loved us,.... As to send his Son to be a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins, and to obtain eternal life for us through his sufferings and death: the apostle uses the same language…
Barnes' Notes
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another - 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…
Adam Clarke
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,…
As the Spirit of truth is known by doctrine (thus spirits are to be tried), it is known by love likewise; and so here follows a strong fervent exhortation to holy Christian love: Beloved, let us love…
Cambridge Bible
Beloved For the sixth and last time the Apostle uses this appropriate address: see on 1Jn 3:2. No address of any kind occurs again until the last verse of the Epistle.
if God so loved us As in 1Jn…
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