the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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1 John 3:11
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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
this: 1 John 1:5, 1 John 2:7, 1 John 2:8
message: or, commandment, 1 Timothy 1:5,*Gr.
that we: 1 John 4:7, 1 John 4:21, John 13:34, John 13:35, John 15:12, Galatians 6:2, Ephesians 5:2, 1 Thessalonians 4:9, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 Peter 3:8, 1 Peter 4:8, 2 John 1:5
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 11:4 - against Isaiah 59:15 - he that Matthew 23:35 - the blood of righteous Acts 7:26 - ye are 1 Corinthians 6:6 - brother 1 Thessalonians 3:12 - love Hebrews 11:4 - faith 1 John 3:23 - love
Cross-References
The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.
The Lord said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.
And He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to Me from the ground.
He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.
And he sayde: What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers blood cryeth vnto me out of the grounde.
Then the Lord said, "What have you done? You killed your brother and the ground opened up to take his blood from your hands. Now his blood is shouting to me from the ground. So you will be cursed from this ground.
And the LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.
And God seide to Cayn, What hast thou do? the vois of the blood of thi brother crieth to me fro erthe.
And he said, What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers blood cryeth vnto me, from the ground.
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For this is the message,.... Sent from God by Christ, or what he in his ministry declared, and is the commandment which was so frequently urged by him, John 13:34;
that ye have heard from the beginning; of the preaching of the Gospel to them, and of their conversion; see 1 John 2:7;
that we should love one another; to which the command of Christ, the reason with which it is enforced, and the early notice of it, should engage.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For this is the message - Margin, “commandment.” In the received text, this is ἀγγελία angelia - “a message brought;” in several manuscripts, and in later editions, it is ἐπαγγελία epangelia - “annunciation, announcement;” an order given, or a commandment, Acts 23:21. It is not very material which reading is followed. The word “command” or “rule” would express the sense with sufficient clearness. The reference is to the law given by the Saviour as a permanent direction to his disciples.
That ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another - See the John 13:34-35 notes; 1 John 2:7 note.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 11. For this is the message — See 1 John 1:5. From the beginning God hath taught men that they should love one another. How essentially necessary this is to the comfort and well-being of man in this state of trial and difficulty, every sensible man must see. All are dependent upon all; all upon each, and each upon all. Mutual love makes this dependence pleasant and doubly profitable. Nothing can be more pleasing to an ingenuous and generous mind than to communicate acts of kindness.