1 John 5:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

1 John 5:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 4:4
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
1 John 4:4-6
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. …
Ephesians 2:2
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Galatians 1:4
Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
John 12:31
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

Topics

Depravity of Man

Commentary

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

(vv. 18-21)

Here we have, I. A recapitulation of the privileges and advantages of sound Christian believers. 1. They are secured against sin, against the fulness of its dominion or the fulness of its guilt: We know that whosoever is born of God (and the believer in Christ is born of God, 1 John 5:1) sinneth not (1 John 5:18), sinneth not with that fulness of heart and spirit that the unregenerate do (as was s…

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

(vv. 19)

19. world lieth in wickedness--rather, “lieth in the wicked one,” as the Greek is translated in 1Jo 5:18; 1Jo 2:13, 14; compare 1Jo 4:4; Joh 17:14, 15. The world lieth in the power of, and abiding in, the wicked one, as the resting-place and lord of his slaves; compare “abideth in death,” 1Jo 3:14; contrast 1Jo 5:20, “we are in Him that is true.” While the believer has been delivered out of his po…