16Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. …
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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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