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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
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. …
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:
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
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 infecti…
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