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1 John 2:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
1 John 2:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 [a]And hereby we are sure that we [b]know him, [c]if we keep his commandments.
4 [d]He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5 [e]But he that keepeth his word, in him is the [f]love of God perfect indeed: hereby we know that we are in [g]him.
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- 1 John 2:3 He returneth to the testimony of our conjunction with God, to wit, to sanctification, declaring what it is to walk in the light, to wit, to keep God’s commandments whereby it followeth that holiness doth not consist in those things which men have devised, neither in a vain profession of the Gospel.
- 1 John 2:3 This must be understood of such a knowledge, as hath faith with it, and not of a common knowledge.
- 1 John 2:3 For the tree is known by the fruit.
- 1 John 2:4 Holiness, that is, a life ordered according to the prescript of God’s commandments how weak soever they be, is of necessity joined with faith, that is, with the true knowledge of the Father in the Son.
- 1 John 2:5 He that keepeth God’s commandments loveth God indeed. He that loveth God, is in God, or is joined together with God. Therefore he that keepeth his commandments, is in him.
- 1 John 2:5 Wherewith we love God.
- 1 John 2:5 He meaneth our conjunction with Christ.
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