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21 Beloved, * if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

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23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

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24 And he that keepeth his commandments ¶ dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

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*JOB, xi. 15: [If thou put iniquity far away], then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear. do. xxii. 26: [Ïf thou return to God], then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. do. xxvii. 6: My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. Ps. ci. 2: I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. LUKE, Xxi. 36: Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. HEB. X. 22: Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 1 JOHN, ii. 28; do. iv. 17.

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See on MAT. vii. 7, 8; and on JOHN, ix. 31.

JOHN, viii. 29: He that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. do. ix. 31: Now we know that God heareth not sinners but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.

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See DEUT. xviii. 15-19. JOHN, xiv. 1: Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. on JOHN, iii. 16; and on do. xvii. 3.

Ver. 11. See on JOHN, xiii. 34.

P1 JOHN, iv. 12. See on JOHN, xiv. 15.

JOHN, xvii. 21, &c: That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in

us that the world may believe that thou hast sent me, &c.

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1 JOHN, iv. 13. See on Roм. viii. 9, 14.

CHAP. IV.

1 He warneth them not to believe all teachers, who boast of the Spirit, but to try them by the rules of the Catholic faith: 7 and by many reasons exhorteth to brotherly love.

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believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God:2 because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

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2 Hereby know ye 3 the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

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3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh 5 is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof 6 ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

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4 Ye are of God, little children, and have

1 prove. Rh. Pu. 2 of God or not. Ma. Cr. Bi.

3 is known. Rh. * Jesus Christ who. Ham. Whit. 5 that confesseth not Jesus Christ, who is come in the flesh. Dod. We.

6 which. Pu.

a See on MAT. xxiv. 4.

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b 1 COR. xii. 8, 10: To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom. To another discerning of spirits. do xiv. 29: Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge. on I COR. ii. 15.

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c 1 JOHN, ii. 18: Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. See on 2 PET. ii. 1.

d1 COR. xii. 3: No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. 1 JOHN, v. 1.

e See on 1 JOHN, ii. 22.

f2 THES. ii. 7: The mystery of iniquity doth already work. 1 JOHN, ii. 18, 22: Even now are there many antichrists.-He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

81 JOHN, ii. 13: I write unto you, little children, because have known the Father. do. iii. 1, 9: Behold, what manner ye of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.-Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. do. v. 4: For whatsoever is born of

overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

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They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

6 We 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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7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for P God is love.

9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only be

God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

See on JOHN, xii. 31.

JOHN, iii. 31: He that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all. * See on JOHN, xv. 19.

JOHN, viii. 47: He that is of God heareth God's words : ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. do. X. 27: My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 1 Cor. xiv. 37: If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. 2 COR. x. 7: If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

m ISA. viii. 20: To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. JOHN, xiv. 7: If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.

n1 JOHN, iii. 10, 11. See on JOHN, xiii. 34.

See on 1 JOHN, iii. 6.

P Ver. 16. 2 COR. xiii. 11: The God of love and peace shall be with you.

9 ROM. viii. 32: 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? 1 JOHN, iii. 16. See on JOHN, xv. 13.

gotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the *propitiation for our sins.

11 Beloved, "if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and w his love is perfected in us.

13 Hereby know we that we * dwell' in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

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14 And we have seen and do testify that the

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JOHN, vi. 51: I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. 1 JOHN, v. 11.

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JOHN, xv. 16: Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. ROM. v. 8, 10: God commendeth his love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. When we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son. TIT. iii. 4: But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared.

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"MAT. Xviii. 33: Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? JOHN, XV. 13: Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. See on do. xiii. 3, 4.

Ver. 26. See on JOHN, i. 18.

w Ver. 18. 1 COR. xiii. 13: And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. 1 JOHN, ii. 5: Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected.

* JOHN, xiv. 20: At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. 1 JOHN, iii. 24. See on ROM. viii. 9.

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y 1 JOHN, i. 2: For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us. See on 2 PET. i. 16.

Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

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15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

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16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. b God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

17 Herein is our love made perfect,10 that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: e because as he is, so are we in this world.

18 There is no 'fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfeet in love.

19 We love him," because he 12 first loved us. 20h If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

8 abideth. Rh. Ham. 9 Gr. love with us. A. V. fect in us. To. is love made perfect with us. Pu. 12 God. Rh. Wh.

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2 JOHN, iii. 17: For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. See on 1 JOHN, ii. 2.

a 1 JOHN, v. 9. Roм. x. 9: That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. See on MAT. xvi. 16.

b See on ver. 8.

c Ver. 12. 1 JOHN, iii. 24.

d1 JOHN, iii. 19. JAMES, ii. 13: For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath showed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment. See on 1 JOHN, iii. 21.

e 1 JOHN, iii. 3.

12 TIM. i. 7: God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

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h1 JOHN, ii. 4: He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, 1 JOHN, iii. 17.

¡ Ver. 12.

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