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14 And awe have seen and testify that bthe Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.  
15 aWhoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.  
16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and ahe who abides in love abides in God, and God bin him.  

The Consummation of Love

17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that awe may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.  
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
19 aWe love1 Him because He first loved us.  

Obedience by Faith

20 aIf someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen,1 how can he love God bwhom he has not seen?  
21 And athis commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also. 
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1 John 4:16

We know (egnwkamen). Perfect active indicative, "we have come to know and still know" as in John 6:9, only there order is changed (pepisteukamen coming before egnwkamen). Confession (omologew) follows experimental knowledge (ginwskw) and confident trust (pisteuw). Believers are the sphere (en hmin, in our case) in which the love of God operates (Westcott). See John 13:35 for "having love."

God is love (o qeov agaph estin). Repeated from verse I John 4:8. So he gathers up the whole argument that one who is abiding in love is abiding in God and shows that God is abiding in him. Thoroughly Johannine style.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 John 4:16:

John 1:1
John 5:42
John 6:56
1 John 4:17
1 John 5:1

 

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