9In 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.
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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.
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-13)As the Spirit of truth is known by doctrine (thus spirits are to be tried), it is known by love likewise; and so here follows a strong fervent exhortation to holy Christian love: Beloved, let us love one another , 1 John 4:7. The apostle would unite them in his love, that he might unite them in love to each other: “ Beloved , I beseech you, by the love I bear to you, that you put on unfeigned mutu…
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