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1 JOHN CHAPTER 5
1Jo_5:1-3 He that loveth God loveth God’s children, and keeth
his commandments.
1Jo_5:4,5 A true faith will enable us to overcome the world.
1Jo_5:6-10 The witnesses of our faith.
1Jo_5:11-13 God hath given to believers eternal life through his Son,
1Jo_5:14-17 and will hear and grant their petitions, made according
to his will.
1Jo_5:18-20 God’s children are distinguished from the world by
abstaining from sin, and by a right knowledge.
1Jo_5:21 A caution against idolatry.
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ; this is not meant of a mere professed, or of a slight and superficial, but of a lively, efficacious, unitive, soul-transforming, and obediential faith in Jesus as the Christ, which is elsewhere made the effect of the regenerating power and grace of God, Joh_1:12,13. And as nothing can be more connatural to such a heaven-born faith, than the loving of him that hath begotten us to it; so nothing can be more certainly consequent and agreeable, than the loving of them too who are begotten also of the same Father, viz. with a correspondent love to the more excellent characters and image of God upon them, than are upon other men.