1 John 3:22

1 John 3:22

20 ^aFor if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, ^awe have confidence toward God.

22 And ^awhatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments ^band do those things that are pleasing in His sight.

23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ ^aand love one another, as He gave¹ us commandment.

The Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Error

24 Now ^ahe who keeps His commandments ^babides in Him, and He in him. And ^cby this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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we receive—as a matter of fact, according to His promise. Believers, as such, ask only what is in accordance with God's will; or if they ask what God wills not, they bow their will to God's will, and so God grants them either their request, or something better than it.

because we keep his commandments—Compare Psalms 66:18; Psalms 34:15; Psalms 145:18-19. Not as though our merits earned a hearing for our prayers, but when we are believers in Christ, all our works of faith being the fruit of His Spirit in us, are "pleasing in God's sight"; and our prayers being the voice of the same Spirit of God in us, naturally and necessarily are answered by Him.

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