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What does 1 John 4:16 mean? John includes both himself and his readers as believers in the beginning of this verse. His words clearly state that both knowing and believing are important.
The idea of fellowship with God is here expressed just as in 1 John 4:15. If John makes it at one time dependent on knowledge, and at another dependent on love, this is explained by the fact that to him both knowledge and love are the radiations of that faith by means of which the new birth operates.
1 John 4:16. John wants us to understand how much God loves us and to believe how special we are to God—our faith in how much He loves us. The fact that God is love is repeated from verse 8 to emphasize how complete God's love is toward us. The verse ends with the fruit of this kind of love—unity. Pat Higgins
Verse 16. - And we have come to know and believe. Both perfects are virtually presents, expressing the present continuance of a condition begun in the past: "We know and continue to believe."
Perhaps this verse in first John, is the verse of all verses that encapsulates the very essence of God and his plan of redemption. "We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him."
Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God: True prophecy, and true teaching, will present a true Jesus. In John’s day, the issue was about if Jesus had truly come in a real body of flesh and blood.
29 lip 2001 · John parlays his discourse of the doctrine of Christ into a discussion of God’s love and Christian love. This is a logical deduction from the nature of God, from His orientation to love. God is unconditional, incomprehensible, incomparable love.
