1 John 4:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

1 John 4:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 2:28
And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
1 John 4:12
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 2:5
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
Romans 8:29
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
1 John 3:3
And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-21)

The apostle, having thus excited and enforced sacred love from the great pattern and motive of it, the love that is and dwells in God himself, proceeds to recommend it further by other considerations; and he recommends it in both the branches of it, both as love to God, and love to our brother or Christian neighbour. I. As love to God, to the primum amabile—the first and chief of all amiable being…

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

(vv. 17)

17-18. (Compare 1Jo 3:19-21.) our love--rather as the Greek, “LOVE (in the abstract, the principle of love [Alford]) is made perfect (in its relations) with us.” Love dwelling in us advances to its consummation “with us” that is, as it is concerned with us: so Greek. Lu 1:58, “showed mercy upon (literally, ‘with’) her”: 2Jo 2, the truth “shall be with us for ever.” boldness--“confidence”: the same…