Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
We love him because he first loved us - This is the foundation of our love to God.
1.We love him because we find he has loved us.
2.We love him from a sense of obligation and gratitude.
3.We love him from the influence of his own love; from his love shed abroad in our hearts, our love to him proceeds. It is the seed whence our love springs.
The verse might be rendered, Let us therefore love him, because he first loved us: thus the Syriac and Vulgate.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing 1 John 4:19:
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