By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Adam Clarke
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…
I. The apostle having, in the conclusion of the last chapter, as was there observed, urged Christian love upon those two accounts, as suitable to Christian profession and as suitable to the divine…
Cambridge Bible
The converse of the truth insisted upon in 1Jn 4:20-21 is now stated. There love and obedience to God was shewn to involve love of His children: here love of God's children is said to follow from our…
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