1 John 4:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

1 John 4:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 14:17
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
John 10:27
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
1 Corinthians 2:12-14
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. …
John 15:26
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
1 John 4:1
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 4-6)

In these verses the apostle encourages the disciples against the fear and danger of this seducing antichristian spirit, and that by such methods as these:—1. He assures them of a more divine principle in them: “ You are of God, little children, 1 John 4:4. You are God’s little children. We are of God, 1 John 4:6. We are born of God, taught of God, anointed of God, and so secured against infectious…

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

(vv. 6)

6. We--true teachers of Christ: in contrast to them. are of God--and therefore speak of God: in contrast to “speak they of the world,” 1Jo 4:5. knoweth God--as his Father, being a child “of God” (1Jo 2:13, 14). heareth us--Compare Joh 18:37, “Every one that is of the truth, heareth My voice.” Hereby--(1Jo 4:2-6); by their confessing, or not confessing, Jesus; by the kind of reception given them re…