...John explains, then, how our love and faithfulness to other people can be supernaturally maintained. "By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments" (1 John 5:2). Faithfulness to God and faithfulness to other people are inextricably...

...believes that Jesus is the Christ has been bom of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome, for whatever is bom of God conquers...

...God, and everyone who loves the fathering one also loves the one who has been fathered by him. (2) By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and obey his commands. (3) This is love for God: that we keep his commands. And his commands are not oppressive,...

...it is the last hour (1 John 2:18). We know that when He appears, we will be like him (1 John 3:2). By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments (1 John 5:2). These things I have written to you who believe in the name of...

...Peter, though here with the added element of the spiritual "test"), we find an emphasis on "doing," eg, "by this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments (5:2; cf. 1:6; 2:17, 29; 3:4, 22). This particular means of "testing" true and...

...every one loving the One having begotten loves also the one having been begotten from [or, by] Him. 2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and are keeping His commandments. 3For this is the love of God, that we are keeping His commandments, and...

...of the brotherhood when He says, "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him." The brethren include all in every place who have exercised faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, because...

...Lesson Eleven: 1 John 5:1-13 John 5:1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. Many people have the idea that as long as they make a profession of Christ, they are born again. Or...

...was begotten of the true Father Himself, As in a certain place the Lord Himself testified, saying, " Every one that loveth Him that begat, loveth Him also that is begotten of Him." t i2. Concerning whom we thus believe, even as the Apostolic Church believes. In one Father unbegotten,...

...confirmed in the next chapter, ver. 1, "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is bom of God, and every one that loveth Him that begat, loveth Him also that is begotten of Him. " And by that parallel place of the apostle Paul, where we have the same rule given to distinguish...