7. Resumption of the main theme ( 1 John 2:29 ). Love, the sum of righteousness, is the test of our being born of God. Love flows from a sense of God's love to us: compare 1 John 4:9 ; 1 John 3:16 , which 1 John 3:16- : resumes; and 1 John 4:13 ; 1 John 3:24 , which similarly 1 John 3:24- : resumes. At the same time, 1 John 3:24- : is connected with the immediately preceding context, 1 John 3:24- : setting forth Christ's incarnation, the great proof of God's love ( 1 John 4:10 ). Beloved —an address appropriate to his subject, "love." love — All love is from God as its fountain: especially that embodiment of love, God manifest in the flesh. The Father also is love ( 1 John 4:10- : ). The Holy Ghost sheds love as its first fruit abroad in the heart. knoweth God —spiritually, experimentally, and habitually. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-8" class="com-number"
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