The First Epistle General of John
Chapter 5:1-5
Geneva Bible Translation Ed. 1599
2 In this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdenous.(a)
4 For all that is born of God, overcometh this world: and this is that victory that hath overcome this world even our faith.
5 Who is it that overcometh this world, but he which believeth that Jesus is that Son of God?(b)
(a) Matthew 11:30
(b) 1 Corinthians 15:57
The apostle having, in the conclusion of the last chapter, as was there observed, urged Christian love upon those two accounts, as suitable to Christian profession and as suitable to the divine command, here adds a third: Such love is suitable, and indeed demanded, by their eminent relation; our Christian brethren or fellow-believers are nearly related to God; they are his children: Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, 1 John 5:1. Here the Christian brother is described by his faith; he that believeth that Jesus is the Christ—that he is Messiah the prince, that he is the Son of God by nature and office, that he is the chief of all the anointed world, chief of all the priests, prophets, or kings, who were ever anointed by God or for him, that he is perfectly prepared and furnished for the whole work of the eternal salvation-accordingly yields himself up to his care and direction; and then he is, dignified by his descent: this one is then born of God, 1 John 5:1. This principle of faith, and the new nature that attends it or from which it springs, are ingenerated by the Spirit of God; and so sonship and adoption are not now appropriated to the seed of Abraham according to the flesh, but by that same Spirit.
Source Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary (edited by RPW Sr.)
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