1 John 5:2 KJV — MannaFest

1 John 5:2

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

KJV

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ASV

Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.

WEB

By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.

YLT

in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;

DBT

Hereby know we that we love the children ofGod, when we loveGod and keep his commandments.

About this book

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1 John — The aged apostle writes to churches in Asia Minor facing docetic teachers who deny the incarnation. Three tests interweave through five short chapters: walk in the light, love the brethren, confess Jesus come in the flesh.

Author: The apostle John — same author as the Gospel of John and 2/3 John; early church unanimous
Date: Late 1st century, c. AD 85–95, likely written from Ephesus

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27 verses on the floor

John 14:15
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Matthew 22:37
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
1 Corinthians 8:3
But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
1 John 3:14
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

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Our love to them appears to be sound and genuine when we love them not merely upon any secular account, as because they are rich, or learned, or kind to us, or of our denomination among religious parties; but because they are God's children, his regenerating grace appears in them, his image and superscription are upon them, and so in them God himself is loved.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Then we truly, and in gospel account, love God, when we keep his commandments: For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and the keeping of his commandments requires a spirit inclined thereto and delighting herein; and so his commandments are not grievous,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

"Love to one's brother is prior, according to the order of nature (see on 1Jo 4:20); love to God is so, according to the order of grace (1Jo 5:2). At one time the former is more immediately known, at another time the latter, according as the mind is more engaged in human relations or in what concerns the divine honor" [ESTIUS].

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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