1 John 3:6-24 ASV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:16-24

Exhortation That Our Christian Love Should be Practical (1 John 3:16-24 ). As throughout John is now concerned that those he speaks to should examine their hearts to ensure that they really are true Christians. He has been speaking of faith, but now he comes down to practicalities. And his word is that those who are truly Christ’s will reveal it practically in the way that they show love to their fellow-Christians. Indeed his concern is lest they be making a profession of being Christians and... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:17

‘But whoever has the world's goods, and observes his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him?’ Yes, says one glibly. I am ready to lay down my life for the brethren, I am ready to take up the cross. Good, says John. But what about a brother in need? How do you behave towards him? If you have this world’s goods, and observe your brother in need, what do you do? Do you pass by on the other side? Do you have a closer look and do nothing? Or do... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:18

‘Little children, let us not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in deed and truth.’ John then follows his specific example with a general plea. It is not only in charitable giving that we should love. Our love, if true, should not be just something we talk about but something we live out practically in every aspect of our lives. Glib words are easy, saying that we love costs nothing, but practical living is the test. It proves whether love is really true or not, indeed whether it is in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:19-20

‘By this we will know that we are of the truth, and will convince (persuade) our heart before him, because if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.’ To the modern commentator these and the following verses are seen as somewhat linguistically complicated. This may possibly arise from the Greek spoken in John’s environment. What may seem to us complicated Greek may merely be colloquial. But whatever the case we must do what we can with it. ‘By this’ must... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:21-23

‘Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God, and whatever we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment.’ On the assumption that they have convinced themselves that their response is genuine, he now goes on to outline its significance. If their hearts do not now condemn... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:24

‘And he who keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.’ John sums up the section by indicating the close relationship between ‘keeping His commandments’ and ‘abiding in Him’. Those who do keep (receive, meditate on, hold in the mind and carry through in the life) His commandments, having believed on His Son Jesus Christ (1 John 3:23), do abide in Him, for their response proves their love of Him. It proves they... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:4-12

1 John 3:4-2 Kings : . To commit sin is a breach of God’ s law, a frustration of God’ s work of redemption, and the manifestation of a principle which betrays kinship with the devil. A man begotten of God will be in moral affinity with God, for which reason righteousness and brotherly love will characterise him. 1 John 3:4 . sin is lawlessness: i.e. not the absence of law, but opposition to it. Law does not cease to exist for the Christian, and all opposition to it, so far from being... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:14-24

1 John 3:13-Jeremiah : . The hatred of the world is to be expected, but within the Christian brotherhood there must be love, manifesting itself in deeds of self-sacrifice in imitation of Christ’ s love. If we possess this spirit we shall be able to silence inward misgivings as to our standing before God, because we obey Him in that we believe in Christ and love one another. Such obedience ensures His indwelling, attested by the gift of His Spirit. 1 John 3:14 . The teaching is the same as... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 John 3:6

By sinneth, he meaneth the same thing as afterwards by committeth sin: see 1 John 3:8,1 John 3:9. Seeing and knowing intend inward union, acquaintance, and converse; such as abode in him implies: see John 5:37; 3 John 1:11. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 John 3:7

This caution implies the zealous endeavour of the seducers of that time, to instil their poisonous doctrine and principles of licentiousness; and his own solicitude, lest these Christians should receive them, and be mischiefed by them. Whereas therefore they were wont to suggest, that a merely notional knowledge was enough to recommend men, and make them acceptable to God, though they lived never so impure lives; he inculcates, that only they that did righteousness, viz. in a continued course,... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:16-24

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:17

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:18

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:19-20

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:21-23

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:24

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:4-12

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 3:14-24

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 John 3:6

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 John 3:7

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