1 John 3:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

1 John 3:14 —

Old words in this verse

abide: — stay, remain, live.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 13:35
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
1 John 5:2
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
1 John 4:20-21
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? …
John 5:24
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.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

Topics

Ablution Anger Assurance Believer Benevolence Blessing Brotherly Kindness Charitableness

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 w…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. We--emphatical; hated though we be by the world, we know what the world knows not. know--as an assured fact. passed--changed our state. Col 1:13, “from the power of darkness ... translated into the kingdom of His dear Son.” from death unto life--literally, “out of the death (which enthrals the unregenerate) into the life (of the regenerate).” A palpable coincidence of language and thought, the…