Robertson Word Pictures - 1 John 4:16 - 4:16

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Robertson Word Pictures - 1 John 4:16 - 4:16


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We know (egnōkamen). Perfect active indicative, “we have come to know and still know” as in Joh 6:9, only there order is changed (pepisteukamen coming before egnōkamen). Confession (homologeō) follows experimental knowledge (ginōskō) and confident trust (pisteuō). Believers are the sphere (en hēmin, in our case) in which the love of God operates (Westcott). See Joh 13:35 for “having love.”

God is love (ho theos agapē estin). Repeated from 1Jo 4:8. So he gathers up the whole argument that one who is abiding in love is abiding in God and shows that God is abiding in him. Thoroughly Johannine style.