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The following statements we find in First John only: "God is light" (chap. 1:5) and "God is love" (chap. 4:8.16). The first speaks of God's holiness, truth and righteousness and the second of His grace and mercy.
John now shows how this message should affect our lives. In the next five verses, there are three false things that some people say (verses 6, 8 and 10). After each of these false things, John shows us what the truth is (1:7, 9; 2:1). The effect of what they say is that *sin does not affect them.
David Guzik commentary on 1 John 4, where John encourages the believers to abide in God and His love, which is perfected among us.
5 dni temu · If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.’ 1 John 1:8–10. Our tendency to be false is illustrated in 1 John 1, where we find three grades of it.
Clarke's Commentary. Verse 8. Which thing is true in him and in you — It is true that Christ loved the world so well as to lay down his life for it; and it was true in them, in all his faithful followers at that time, who were ready to lay down their lives for the testimony of Jesus.
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: Verse 2. - This verso contains the main subject of the section. To confess the Incarnation is to prove that one draws one's inspiration from God through his Spirit.
1 John 1:8. Purification from sin presupposes the existence of sin even in believers; the denial of this is self-deception. p ½ µ 4 À É ¼ µ ½ ] as in 1 John 1:6; thereby is meant not merely the speech of the heart (Spener), but the actual expression and assertion.
