19And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. …
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
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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