1 John 2:4

Contextual Overview

³ If we obey what God has told us to do, then we are sure that we know him. ³ And by this we may be sure that we know him, if we keep his commandments. ³ And herby we are sure that we knowe him yf we kepe his comaundementes. ³ This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his mitzvot. ³ By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. ³ We can be sure that we know God if we obey his commands. ³ And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. ³ And by this we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. ³ This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. ³ And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that saith: 1 John 2:9, 1 John 1:6, 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10, 1 John 4:20, James 2:14-16

I know: Hosea 8:2, Hosea 8:3, Titus 1:16

is a: 1 John 1:6, 1 John 1:8

Reciprocal: Psalms 119:29 - Remove Psalms 119:166 - and done Proverbs 7:2 - Keep Proverbs 19:16 - keepeth the Jeremiah 22:16 - was not Daniel 11:32 - the people Hosea 5:4 - and Matthew 28:20 - them Luke 6:49 - that heareth John 7:28 - whom John 8:55 - shall John 15:21 - because 1 Corinthians 7:19 - but Galatians 4:9 - ye have Ephesians 1:17 - in the knowledge 1 John 2:3 - hereby 1 John 2:5 - whoso 1 John 2:6 - that saith 1 John 2:13 - because 1 John 2:22 - Who 1 John 3:6 - whosoever 1 John 4:8 - knoweth

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the sky and the earth.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1
In the bigynnyng God made of nouyt heuene and erthe.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth --

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that saith I know him,.... God or Christ, as the Gnostics did, who pretended to great, even perfect, knowledge of divine things:

and keepeth not his commandments; which the above persons had no regard to, and as many who profess great light and knowledge in our days show no concern for:

is a liar; he contradicts what he says, and gives the lie to it; for though in words he professes to know God, in works he denies him, and which betrays his ignorance of him:

and the truth is not in him; there is no true knowledge of God and Christ in him; nor is the truth of the Gospel in his heart, however it may be in his head; nor is the truth of grace in him, for each of these lead persons to obedience. The Ethiopic version renders it, "the truth of God is not with him"; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He that saith, I know Him - He who professes to be acquainted with the Saviour, or who professes to be a Christian.

And keepeth not his commandments - What he has appointed to be observed by his people; that is, he who does not obey him.

Is a liar - Makes a false profession; professes to have that which he really has not. Such a profession is a falsehood, because there can be no true religion where one does not obey the law of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 John 2:4. He that saith, I know him — This is a severe blow against those false teachers, and against all pretenders to religious knowledge, who live under the power of their sins; and against all Antinomians, and false boasters in the righteousness of Christ as a covering for their personal unholiness. They are all liars, and no truth of God is in them.