1 John 4:20-21 ASV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:20

‘If a man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar, for he who loves not his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.’ The result is that we will love all who are true brothers in Christ, those who are of and speak forth the truth. For they share the love that we enjoy, and they too are in His love. And they minister to us of Christ, as we should minister to them. Must they not then be within our love, which He has produced within us? It would be an impossible... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:21

‘And this commandment have we from him, that he who loves God love his brother also.’ So God has made it a command. God commands us to love such brothers. So it is not only logically and spiritually necessary, it is commanded. We have no choice in the matter. We are to be as one (John 17:20-23), because he has commanded it. But it should be noted of what this love consists, it consists of the keeping of the commandments (1 John 5:2-3). It is a noble, moral love that seeks wholly the good of the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:7-21

1 John 4:7-Ecclesiastes : . John returns to the theme of 1 John 3:14 ff., be cause if the Church is the home of truth, still more is it the home of love. The evidence for our Divine sonship is that the love manifested by God in sending His Son for our redemption— a fact to which the Church bears witness— issues in love on our part to God and to our brethren; love, when mature, casts out fear. Moreover the proof that we love the unseen God is that we love our brother, as Christ commanded us.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 John 4:20

The greater difficulty here is implied, through our present dependence upon sense, of loving the invisible God, than men that we daily see and converse familiarly with. Hence, considering the comprehensiveness of these two things, the love of God, and of our brother, that they are the roots of all that duty we owe to God and man, the fulfilling of the whole law, Matthew 22:37-39, he lets us see the falsehood and absurdity of their pretence to eminent piety and sanctity, who neglect the duties... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 John 4:21

Both ought to be conjoined, being required both by the same authority. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 John 4:15-21

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES1 John 4:15. Son of God.—St. John was jealous of the double truth of the person of Jesus—His Divinity and His humanity.1 John 4:17. Made perfect.—Or reaches its purpose and end. The sign of its being fully developed in us will be the removal of fear in relation to the “day of judgment.” We shall no more fear it than Jesus did. Enter into sonship, and all thought of judgment day passes away from us. Children are not afraid of their father.1 John 4:20-21.—A... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 John 4:1-21

Shall we turn now in our Bibles to I John chapter 4. As we go back to verse 1Jo 4:24 of chapter 3, the later portion, "Hereby we know that He abides in us by the Spirit which He has given us." I know that God abides in life. How do I know? Because He has given me the Holy Spirit.Paul said, "The Holy Spirit is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession" ( Ephesians 1:14 ). We have been sealed, he said, with this Holy Spirit of promise; the seal was God's mark... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 John 4:1-21

1 John 4:1-3 . Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God. Whether those teachers believe that Christ is come in the flesh, which to the present hour the unbelieving jews deny. Try them by the faith of all the holy apostles and confessors, whether they confess that Christ is the Son of the living God. Whether he be the glory that shone in the ancient church, and dwelt on the mercyseat. The Eternal Son, the Word, the Wisdom of God, crucified for sinners. False... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 John 4:20-21

1 John 4:20-21If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar I.The lesson is taught with peculiar force which is deserving of attention. The several clauses of the text are so constructed as to cast light upon it. “A man may say, I love God.” He may say it and think it, and yet not do it. In that case he is self-deceived. Or he may say it and not think it. In such a case he is a hypocrite. In the midst of such self-deception or hypocritical profession the man “may hate his... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 John 4:20

20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? Ver. 20. If a man say, I love God ] If he did so, he would hardly say so in a vaunting way howsoever. "Charity vaunteth not itself; is not puffed up," 1 Corinthians 13:4 . Christ loves secret service,Song of Solomon 2:14; Song of Solomon 2:14 . They that bear him greatest love make least show thereof before others. Master Bartlet... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:20

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:21

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:7-21

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 John 4:20

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 John 4:21

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 John 4:15-21

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 John 4:1-21

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 John 4:1-21

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 John 4:20-21

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 John 4:20

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