14We 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? …
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-19)The beloved apostle can scarcely touch upon the mention of sacred love, but he must enlarge upon the enforcement of it, as here he does by divers arguments and incentives thereto; as, I. That it is a mark of our evangelical justification, of our transition into a state of life: We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren , 1 John 3:14. We are by nature children of…
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