If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
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Gill's Exposition
If we receive the witness of men,.... The witness of a sufficient number of credible men, of men of good character and report, is always admitted in any case, and in any court of judicature; it was…
Barnes' Notes
If we receive the witness of men - As we are accustomed to do, and as we must do in courts of justice, and in the ordinary daily transactions of life. We are constantly acting on the belief that what…
Adam Clarke
If we receive the witness of men - Which all are obliged to do, and which is deemed a sufficient testimony to truth in numberless cases; the witness of God is greater - he can neither be deceived nor…
The faith of the Christian believer (or the believer in Christ) being thus mighty and victorious, it had need to be well founded, to be furnished with unquestionable celestial evidence concerning the…
S. John's characteristic repetition of the word -witness" is greatly weakened in A. V. by the substitution of -testify" in 1Jn 5:5 and -record" in 1Jn 5:10-11: see on 1Jn 1:2; 1Jn 2:15; 1Jn 2:24; 1Jn…
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