Quaker Bible Index

(1 Jn 3:1)

Other texts citing1 Jn 3:1: GF7:57 (under 3 Jn 1:11), IP3:304 (1 Jn 4:16)]

(1 Jn 3:1f)

JN1: 369 (1654): you are ignorant of the Scriptures, which saith, "Behold with what manner of love the Father loved us, that we should be called the Sons of God"; and we are Sons already, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be. [1 Jn 3:1f]

(1 Jn 3:2)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 3:2: GFJN 134 (under Heb 2:11)]

JN1: 15 (George Fox, 1653): the saints are one in the Father and the Son, and "we shall be like him" [1 Jn 3:2]

(1 Jn 3:3)

Other texts citing 1 Jn 3:3: GF6:444 (Jas 2:17-20), JN1:153 (Gen 12:1f), JN2:81 (Heb 6:19)

GF5:48 (1674): John saith, "he that hath this hope, purifies himself as he is pure," [1 Jn 3:3] but do not you say, you cannot be pure on this side the grave...; so what is your profession of the scripture worth in that hope which doth not purify, which is the hope that will perish.

GF7: 19 (1652): no one is justified living in the first birth and nature, and false faith and hope, which doth not purify, as God is pure [1 Jn 3:3].

GF7: 244 (1663): no purifying, but by coming to Christ, the hope of glory, the purifier [1 Jn 3:3 confl w Col 1:27]

MFU 178f (1656): ...thy hope we deny, for it is the hope of the hypocrite, which shall perish [Job 8:13] & not the hope that purifies [1 Jn 3:3].... Christ Jesus within thee thou art ignorant of... And he is the mystery and the true hope & he that hath this hope purifies himself even as he is pure, which thou art ignorant of...and so thy hope is for destruction.

JN2: 106 (1655): Whether the hope of Christ purifies the heart [1 Jn 3:3], and is not that the hope of the hypocrite [Job 8:13] which which hopes to be saved but lives in sin and worldly pleasures?

IP3: 435 (1670): he hath given us of the hope which purifies the heart [1 Jn 3:3/Acts 15:9], and stays the mind in all storms [Heb 6:19]

IP4: 209 (1671): Doth not he who hath the true, pure, living hope (which anchors within the veil) [Heb 6:19] purify himself, even as He is pure? [1 Jn 3:3]

(1 Jn 3:4)

RBA 220 (1687, VIII.9, commenting on Rom 8:35-39): But wherever there is a continuing in sin, there there is a separation, in some degree, seeing every sin is contrary to God, and anomia, i.e a transgression of the law (1 Jn 3:4)...

(1 Jn 3:5)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 3:5: GF3:487 (under Jas 3:2), MFS 32 (John 3:5f)]

GFNJ 51: They said, had I no sin? "Sin?" said I; "Christ my saviour hath taken away my sin, and in him there is no sin." [1 Jn 3:5]

JN2: 203 (1655): where he alone lives there is no sin; for the life of Christ is the death of sin, as it is manifest, and for this purpose we know he was manifest to take away our sins, and in him there is no sin [1 Jn 3:5]....

IP3: 69 (1668): ... Christ the new and living way [Heb 10:20], which was before the fall, and leads the obedient out of the fall, into himself who never fell, in whom is no sin [1 Jn 3:5], nor erring, no, not for the wayfaring man, though a fool, who often erred and wandered before he came thither [Isa 35:8]....

(1 Jn 3:6)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 3:6: JN1: 508 (under 1 John 1:8)]

JN2: 590 (1655): And though it be true that he that abides in Christ sins not [1 Jn 3:6]; so it is as true that he that goes forth again into the world is sure to be defiled; and saith Christ, if a man abide not in me he is cast forth [John 15:6].

(1 Jn 3:7)

IP3: 220f (1672): Faith is necessary, and works are necessary in their places; and the justification of each follows them. And he that receiveth the Spirit of his Son, and therein doth righteousness, is therein esteemed of God righteous, as the Son is righteous. 1 John 3:7. God justifieth us in his Son, and loveth his holy seed too therein, and the faith that comes from him, and all the works that are wrought in him; and out of this holy root of life and power, is no man, nor his faith, nor his works justified.

WPR 227 (1668; WPT 32): [substantive discussion, esp of v 7]

(1 Jn 3:8)

GF: usually confl 1 Jn 3:8 w Heb 2:14, in phrase "destroy the devil and his works"

Other texts citing 1 Jn 3:8: GFJN 14 (1 Pet 1:6f), GF7:251 (Heb 13:12), GF7:257 (Gen 35:11), GFJN 367, GF7:168 (both Luk 1:2), GF7:295 (Heb 2:10), GF8:6f (Mat 25:1-13, Rev 19:7), GF8:251 (1 Jn 5:19), GFT 33 (Heb 4:3), MFU 164 (Mat 5:19, Jas 2:10, 1 Jn 5:17), JN1:392 (Mat 23:15), JN1:511 (Heb 13:8), JN2:67 (Rom 1:16), EQ 506 (Mat 3:11f), WPR 305 (Mat 12:29)

GF7: 232 (1662): Christ came to destroy the devil and his works [1 Jn 3:8/Heb 2:14], they say, and yet they must carry them to the grave; and yet people are saved by Christ, they will say; but while you are upon earth, you must not be made free from sin. This is as much as if one should be in Turkey a slave, chained to a boat, and one should come to redeem him to go into his own country; but say the Turks, thou art redeemed, but while thou art upon the earth, thou must not go out of Turkey, nor have the chain off thee.

GF8: 141 (1677): believe in the seed Christ Jesus, who bruises the head of the serpent [Gen 3:15], that has brought man and woman into his image, and his works; but Christ destroys both him and his works [1 Jn 3:8/Heb 2:14], and renews man and woman up into the image of God [Col 3:10], as they were in before they fell

MFS 31 (1660): He is made manifest in His people to destroy the works of the devil [1 Jn 3:8] which he has wrought in the disobedient man and so brought the first Adam into the fall and under the curse, that the very earth is cursed for his sake [Gen 3:17].

JN1: 156 (1653): all who have Christ made manifest, the works of the devil are destroyed [1 Jn 3:8]; and if thou canst not witness the works of the devil destroyed, Jesus Christ is not yet made manifest.

JN1: 511 (1655): And whereas you say that Christ destroyed the works of the devil [1 Jn 3:8] for his people upon the cross, and yet men must commit sin while they live; [lengthy passage; see also under Heb 13:8]

JN2: 72 (1655): he that sins is of the devil [1 Jn 3:8] and is doing his work

JN2: 206 (1655): With [the light of Christ] we see that he that commits sin is of the devil [1 Jn 3:8] and is fallen from God

IP4: 187 (1667): yea, he came to destroy the works of the devil [1 Jn 3:8], to cleanse man's mind of the darkness and power of Satan, and to fill it with the light and power of Truth;

(1 Jn 3:8f)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 3:8f: JN1: 508 (under 1 John 1:8)]

(1 Jn 3:9)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 3:9: GFJN 7 (under 1 Jn 3:14)]

IP3: 321 (1674): Query 1. What is that seed which is spoken of, 1 John 3:9. which remaineth in those that are born of God, and preserveth out of sin those that are led by it and comprehended in it? Is it not the seed of the kingdom?

IP4: 394 (1679): [In Mat 13:31 Christ preaches the kingdom] as "a seed sown in the heart," and that a very little one. Now consider if this be not the Word of God in a seed, ... God's seed ("his seed remaineth in him," 1 John 3:9).... And this Word is so powerful against sin, that it doth not only cut it off, and wash it away from the mind and conscience, and so make them clean, but it also keeps the mind, in which it remains, as it is regarded and hearkened to, from joining to sin any more; and if sin cannot be joined to, it can neither be conceived nor brought forth [Jas 1:15].

RBA 207 (1678, VIII.2): I will ... not deny but that there may be a state attainable in this life, in which to do righteousness may become so natural to the regenerate soul, that in the stablility of this condition they cannot sin. Others may speak more certainly of this state, as having arrived at it. For me, I shall speak modestly, as acknowledging myself not to have arrived at it; yet I dare not deny it, for it seems so positively to be asserted by the apostle, in these words (1 John 3:9 [Geneva]), "He that is born of God sinneth not, neither can he, because the seed of God remaineth in him".

WPR 622 (1696; WPT 319): And this Spirit begins in Conviction, and ends in Conversion and Perseverence; the one follows the other. Conversion being the Consequence of Convictions obey'd; and Perseverence, a natural Fruit of Conversion, being Born of God. These "sin not, for his seed remaineth in them." [1 Jn 3:9]

(1 Jn 3:9f)

GF7: 277 (1666): And this is the believer that is born of God, the immortal birth; and this birth is he that overcomes the world, that doth not sin, that keeps himself, because he is born of God, and the seed of God remains in him [1 Jn 3:9]; and hereby the children of God, and the true believers are manifest from the false believers and children of the devil. He that doth righteousness is of God; he that doth not righteousness, is not of God [1 Jn 3:10].

JN1: 237 (1653): And saith the Holy Ghost, "Whoever is born of God sins not," for his seed remaineth in him [1 Jn 3:9]; for he that is begotten of God keepeth himself that the wicked one toucheth him not [1 Jn 5:18], and saith plainly, "In this are the children of God made manifest, and the children of the devil"; whoever doth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother [1 Jn 3:10].

(1 Jn 3:11)

Other texts citing 1 Jn 3:11: GFJN 460 (under Mat 23:13-29)]

(1 Jn 3:12)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 3:12: JN2:452 (John 16:2f)]

GF4: 130 (1657): now tell Cain the envious murderer [1 Jn 3:12] of a silent meeting or waiting upon God, when he is a vagabond from that of God in him [Gen 4:12,14], and so from God [and] would slay and murder them that are [like Abel] in the life; it he will slay and yet sacrifice, to which sacrifice God hath no respect.[Gen 4:5-8]

GF7: 46 (1653): For in that city the righteous ones are slain, by them who are of Cain's generation. [1 Jn 3:12]

JN1: 100 (1653): Do you not show yourselves to be murderers, in the generation of priests, Cain-like? [1 Jn 3:12] Do you not show it openly, do not ye seek to persecute and put in prison?

JN1: 162 (1653): And all who have not this word puts the letter for the word and are in Cain's nature, envying and murdering [1 Jn 3:12] and running on swiftly.

RBA 407 (1678, XIV): all killing, banishing, fining, imprisoning and other such things which are inflicted upon men for the alone exercise of their conscience or difference in worship or opinion proceedeth from the spirit of Cain, the murderer [1 Jn 3:12]....

(1 Jn 3:13)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 3:13: GF7:17 (John 1:10), GF7:73 (Jas 4:4), GF8:287 (under 1 Jn 4:4)]

(1 Jn 3:14)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 3:14: GF6: 445 (under Heb 2:14)]

GFJN 7: and the Lord opened to me that, if all were believers, then they were all born of God [1 Jn 3:9] and passed from death to life [3:14], and that none were true believers but such; and though others said they were believers, yet they were not.

DFR 28 (17--): I went to a yearly meeting of the people called Quakers ...in order to discover whether they were a living people or not.... a people who had life in them, and abounded in love to each other [1 Th 3:12], as did the primitive Christians; a people who knew they had passed from death to life, by their love to the brethren [1 Jn 3:14].

(1 Jn 3:14f)

JN1: 37f (John Lawson, 1653): He that believeth "hath passed from death to life" because he loveth his brethren; here thou showest thou dost not believe, but art in the death and art in envy; so thou showest forth thyself to be Cain, and hatest thy brethren. "We know that we are translated from death unto life, because we love our brethren; he that loveth not his brother, abideth in the death" [1 Jn 3:14] and there thou art. "Whosoever hateth his brother is a man-slayer; and you know that no man-slayer hath eternal life abiding in him" [1 Jn 3:15 GBT]. And this is thy condition, and here thou art an antichrist in the world, envying those who are raised from the dead, and thou seekest to bring them to the death whom God hath raised from the death.

(1 Jn 3:15)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 3:15: GF8:294 (under Gen 4:11-17), JN2:74: (Gen 4:5)]

GF7: 172 (1659): Now, the manslayer hath not eternal life abiding in him, [1 Jn 3:15 GBT] that is he that envies his brother; so all the persecutors, that envy their brethren, have not eternal life abiding in them;

JN2: 6 (1655): who beats in prisons, and envies his brother, is a murderer [1 Jn 3:15]

JN2:237 (1655): ...no liar hath the truth in him [1 Jn 2:4], nor no envious person hath eternal life abiding in him [1 Jn 3:15]

IP1: 39 (1658): What is the true Christian's hope? It is Christ in him; he "hath eternal life abiding in him [1 Jn 3:15];" and he knows that cannot but lead to glory [Col 1:27].

(1 Jn 3:16)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 3:16: IP1:38 (John 10:15)]

GFJN 221: as Christ laid down his life for you, so lay down your lives for one another [1 Jn 3:16]. Hence you may go over the heads of the presecutors, and reach the witness of God [1 Jn 5:10] in them all....

(1 Jn 3:17)

JN2: 458 (1655): ...thou sayest the new Jerusalem appears not to be come down to us [Rev 3:12], because of our grief of heart and yearning bowels for the misery of others. I say, thou shows what thou knows of it. Did not Christ weep over Jerusalem [Luke 19:41]? and had John no bowels of compassion towards others [1 John 3:17]? and wilt thou deny their seeing of the new Jerusalem?

(1 Jn 3:18)

GF4: 325 (1663): And John in his epistle called them babes (1 Jn 3:18 BT), elect (2 Jn 1:1), dearly beloved (1 Jn 3:21 BT), and not lay-people;

(1 Jn 3:20-22)

IP3:132 (1668): Yea, they might so walk as that their hearts should not condemn them; but that they might have confidence toward God. [3:20f] And as Christ said to the Father, "Father, thou always hearest me" [John 11:42]; so they could say, "Whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight." [1 Jn 3:22]

(1 Jn 3:20f)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 3:20f: IP3:90 (1 Jn 4:1)]

(1 Jn 4:1)

Other texts citing 1 Jn 4:1: GF3:154 (Rom 1:16), GF3:197 (under Mat 23:15), GF6:220 (3 Jn 9f), JN1:51 (John 5:22), JN1:518 (John 5:39), IP1:365, IP2:427 (1 Jn 2:26f), IP2: 427f (Mar 3:11), IP4:202 (1 Jn 2:27), HPS 183 (Luk 9:55), SIW 68f (John 10:4f)]

GF6: 211f (1683): The apostle did not say to the church of Christ, Try them, whether they had the good words, and fair speeches [Rom 16:18], and the form of godliness, but "try their spirits," whether they be of God, yea or nay [1 Jn 4:1]; and so, if they have not the power of godliness, they are to be turned away from [2 Tim 3:5]. And therefore, with the anointing within, by which you may know all things [1 Jn 2:27], with it "Try their spirits"....

GF7: 61 (1653): But that which will not come to the everlasting foundation, is apt to be tossed to and fro [Eph 4:14] with airy spirits, who are now gone out into the world [1 Jn 4:1, Eph 2:2], to deceive such whose hearts look back after worldly things;

GF7: 254f (1664): the spirit of Christ does not persecute any that do not receive that which he sets up; but the spirit of the world doth persecute them that will not receive that which it sets up. And in this you may try both fruits [Mat 7:16] and spirits [1 Jn 4:1] (as the rod of Moses devoured up all the magician's serpents [Exo 7:12]) of the lying signs and wonders [2 Th 2:9];

MFU 59 (1654): Thou art afraid to be deceived and thou that hast nothing to try the Spirits with, whether they be of God, thou art deceived, and art apt to believe every Spirit. [1 Jn 4:1] But we know the Spirits, and have that which tries the Spirits, for the son of God is come; and hath given us an understanding [1 Jn 5:20].

MFU 101 (1654): John saith, Many false prophets are gone out in to the World: Now try your Teachers by this, and see whether they are not in the World.... [1 Jn 4:1]

MFU 310 (MF & Samuel Fisher, 1660): We do humbly and heartily desire oh King! that some of us might be brought before you to be proved, & tried to see whether we be of God [1 Jn 4:1]. This is according to the Scripture: That we may be first tried before we be Judged.

IP1: 332 (1660): But whither went [the antichrists], when they went out from the true church [1 Jn 2:18f]? why, they went out into the world. 1 John 4:1. They got the form of godliness [2 Tim 3:5], which would stand well enough with the lusts and ease of the flesh, and preached up that in the world. And now speaking the things of God in the worldly spirit, the world could hear them, [1 Jn 4:5].

IP2:208f (1661): [lengthy passage on discernment]

IP3:90 (1668): "Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God," 1 John 4:1. And they which are of God, love to come to the light which tries and makes manifest; but they which are not of God refuse to be tried by it [John 3:20f].

SBD 23 (1750): Here is therefore great need to be cautious and try the Spirit [1 Jn 4:1]; that is, not to receive anything for inspiration or revelation without being well satisfied in thyself that it is such.

(1 Jn 4:1f)

JN1: 227 (1653): The saints' touchstone is within, whereby they try the spirits whether they be of God or no [1 Jn 4:1]; every spirit that confesseth Jesus Christ come in the flesh is of God [1 Jn 4:2], and he that confesseth him in truth hath him, and the Father also [1 Jn 2:23].

(1 Jn 4:2)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 4:2: JN2:192 (under Heb 7:19), JSS 17 (Luk 4:41)]

(1 Jn 4:2f)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 4:2f: MFU 202 (John 14:6), IP3: 167 (1 Jn 4:6)]

(1 Jn 4:3)

GF7: 37 (1653): But to give tithes to such as do not preach to us spiritual things, but deny Christ come in the flesh [1 Jn 4:3], and hold things up in the figure, all such we deny; and for the truth's sake do we suffer by such.

JN2: 546 (1655): And therefore they was to try all antichrists who denied Christ in their flesh [1 Jn 4:3] as thou dost, and so all idol-shepherds [Zech 11:17] and hirelings who had not God in them they denied; and those that was without God they saw them to be in the world, and so the world would hear them, but them in whom God was they knew not but as thou does now to envy and reproach.

JN2: 199 (1655): John ... declared that then antichrist was gone into the world, and that was the spirit of antichrist who denied Christ in them [1 Jn 4:3]; but they that believe hath the witness in themselves [1 Jn 5:9f]

IP1: 55 (1658): The Apostle John, who forewarned of antichrist, and gave a mark whereby it might be known; namely, by his not confessing Christ come in the flesh, 1 John 4:3 (which he that setteth up any thing of the old covenant, or any invention or imitation of any thing therein, doth not), bids also beware of idols [1 Jn 5:21]...

IP3: 53 (1667): He that will keep close to God ... must watch to his Spirit, and know the leadings of it, else he will not follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes [Rev 14:4); but stay behind in some observation or practice which the Lamb is gone out of; and so miss the leader, and meet, instead thereof, with another leader, even the spirit of antichrist [1 Jn 4:3], who enters into the outward court [Rev 11:2], and outward practices, so soon as ever the Spirit of God hath left them.

IP3:166 (1668): And he is not only antichrist, that denieth Christ's appearance in that body of flesh [1 Jn 4:3]; but he that denieth him (the hope of glory [Col 1:27]) in his saints, his spiritual body.

(1 Jn 4:4)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 4:4: JN2:106 (under Jas 4:7), JN2:569 (Rev 12:5), WPR 140 (Luk 11:21f)]

GF7: 149f (1658): That is the birth, which abideth in the house of the Lord God for ever [Psa 23:6], and shall go no more forth; which is greater than he that is in the world [1 Jn 4:4].

GF8: 287 (1685): So it is no marvel, if the world that lieth in wickedness [1 Jn 5:19], be haters of God and haters of his son, and sons [1 Jn 3:13], but "greater is he that is in God's sons and daughters, than he that is in the world [1 Jn 4:4];" by which they do overcome the world, as in 1 John iv. 4.

JN2: 202 (1655): We have found him whom our souls love [Song 3:4]; And greater is he in us, than he that's in the world. [1 Jn 4:4]

(1 Jn 4:5)

IP1: 332: [1 Jn 4:5, see under 1 Jn 4:1]

(1 Jn 4:6)

GF8: 66 (1674): For if any should sigh, or groan, or rejoice, or make a joyful sound, when another is praying in the spirit of God, and ministering in the spirit, spiritual things; this the spirit of error [1 Jn 4:6] cannot bear, but swells, and breaks out into confusion and disorder [1 Cor 14:33], which ... is to be cut down with the sword of the spirit [Eph 6:17]....

IP3: 166f (1668): And did not they that were of God hear the voice of Christ, the voice of the Shepherd [John 10:4], in them? But they which were not of God, which were not the sheep, could not hear the voice of Christ in his apostles and believers [1 Jn 4:6]; could not own him come in their flesh, though they could preach the same Christ in words, and own his coming in that body of flesh which he had appeared in [1 Jn 4:2f].

HPS 345 (Elizabeth Bathurst, 1679): great is the wrath of the Enemy, who intends them Mischief, so that what he cannot do by Power, he will seek to do by Policy, insinuating into the Minds of People, That though ‘tis the Spirit of Truth they pretend unto, yet ‘tis a Spirit of Error they are led by; [1 Jn 4:6]

WTG 98 (Susanna Morris, 1752): I was much grieved to find that a wrong spirit [1 Jn 4:6] had got in amongst most of the elders

DFR 25 (17--): If I should be led by a spirit of error and confusion [1 Jn 4:6], I might offend my Maker and my fellow-creatures; forever remain in a dark wilderness; and never be restored to favor with God and good men.

JWJM 177n (1772): Thus business goes on in the spirit of error [1 Jn 4:6], and youth are trained up in that which tends to harden their hearts against the pure inward leadings of Christ.

(1 Jn 4:8)

IP3:372: [1 Jn 4:8, see under 1 Jn 4:11]

(1 Jn 4:9)

WPR 222 (1668; WPT 21): [quotes 1 Jn 4:9] Which plainly attributes Christ in his Doctrine, Life, Miracles, Death, and Sufferings to God, as the Gift and Expression of his Eternal Love, for the Salvation of men.

(1 Jn 4:11)

IP3: 372 (1677): What love also the Lord sheds abroad in their hearts [Rom 5:5]; ...and how they love others, in the love wherewith God (who is love [1 Jn 4:8,16]) hath loved them [1 Jn 4:11]; and how natural it is to them to pray for their enemies, and to bless them that curse them, and do good for evil [Mat 5:44]....

(1 Jn 4:16)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 4:16: GF7:30 (under Heb 7:16), , GF7:159 (John 5:24), IP3:372 (1 Jn 4:11)]

GF7: 98f (1655): And now such are seen that go in Cain's way [Jude 1:11], who would murder, and do murder in their hearts, who are in envy, who are the vagabonds, and the fugitives [Gen 4:3-16], who have not a habitation in God, who is love [1 Jn 4:16].

GF7: 142 (1657): And here the love of God is shed abroad in the heart [Rom 5:5]; and dwelling in love ye dwell in God [1 Jn 4:16], and from the life the eternal love doth flow, which life comes from the Father of life, whose love doth not change.

GF8: 232 (1683): and in his power and spirit live and walk, so that ... there may be no strife among you, but dwell in love; for he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God [1 Jn 4:16]; so, God who is love, is to be your salvation;

IP3: 304 (1674): God is love: and his children are of him, and partake of and dwell in the same love [1 Jn 4:16], though the enmity and highest wisdom of the world knew them not [1 Jn 3:1], nor can know them....

(1 Jn 4:17)

[Other texts citing 1 jn 4:17: JN1: 12 (under John 13:15), JN2:203 (Mat 19:27)

GF5: 142 (1675): "For as he is [to wit, Christ,] (saith John), even so are we in this world." And now, would not ye professors of the letter say, they blasphemed to say, that as Christ was, so were they in this present world [1 Jn 4:17]? Ye that profess him, and do not possess him, are ye not such?

IP2: 448 (1666): ...the true Israelites whom God hath cleansed, and taught to deny themselves daily [Luke 9:23] ... have boldness [1 Jn 4:17] before that God who hath searched them [Psa 139:1], and removed from them the iniquities which he found therein.

(1 Jn 4:18)

GF8: 152 (1678): And so, dear friends, let the love of God, which is shed abroad in your hearts [Rom 5:5], cast out all fear [1 Jn 4:18].

JN2: 183 (1655; EQ 286): All the holy men of God that did ever declare the way how they came to see God, came through [trembling] as the Scriptures can witness... But, says thou, perfect love casts out fear [1 Jn 4:18]. What now! Art thou talking of perfection?

IP1: 41 (1658): ... the gospel state is love, which casteth out fear [1 Jn 4:18]. Doth the love of God refuse or cast out the fear of God? Nay; it casts out the fear that brings bondage [Heb 2:15]; the fear that came in by transgression; which fear is stirred up, and discovered by the law.

WTG 201 (Elizabeth Hudson, 1749): my spirits were seasoned with my master's love, and my soul filled with that true peace which casteth out all fear [1 Jn 4:18 confl w Phil 4:7]

(1 Jn 4:19)

JN2: 213 (1655): And this we know, who love his appearance, and that he hath loved us first [1 Jn 4:19]; and in that love we follow him and call to all to come to it.

(1 Jn 4:20)

IP4: 166 (1671): Can any see or know him that begets, and with the same eye not see or know him that is begotten of him [1 Jn 5:1]? Can any love Christ, and not love his brethren? [1 Jn 4:20]

(1 Jn 5:1)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 5:1: IP4: 166 (under 1 Jn 4:20)]

GF7: 244 (1663): and no overcoming, but by believing in Christ the light [1 Jn 5:4], and he that doth so is born of God [1 Jn 5:1].

JN2: 299 (1655): Friend, he that believes is born of God [1 Jn 5:1], and he that's born of God is not of this world;

(1 Jn 5:3)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 5:3: GF3:502f (Luk 17:10), RBA 217 (John 4:34)]

IP3: 406 (1677): How come the children of God, who are begotten of him, to obey his commandments? Is it not from the constrainings of his love, which makes them natural and easy (where the birth and nature is grown up), and not grievous and burdensome? Mat 11:30. 1 John 5:3.

(1 Jn 5:3f)

IP3: 133 (1668): They were in the love which keeps the commandments, of the birth to which the victory is given, and in the faith which gives the victory. [1 Jn 5:3f]

(1 Jn 5:4)

Other texts citing 1 Jn 5:4: GF3:525 (under Jas 1:17), GF4: 302 (Rom 3:28), GF5:53 (Jas 2:19f), GF7:141 (Jas 1:6), GF7:244 ([1] 1 Jn 5:1, [2] John 8:14), GF8:143 (Heb 11) GF8:163 (Heb 6:12), JN2:67 (Rom 1:16), IP3:324 (Rom 5:2)]

GF5: 449 (1678): "this is the victory that overcomes the world, even your faith." [1 Jn 5:4] So if there be no overcoming of the world, then there is no witnessing of this faith.

GF often combines 1 Jn 5:4 with other texts on faith, e.g.:

GF7: 203 (1661): Put on therefore the shield of faith [Eph 6:16], by which faith (your shield) ye have the victory [1 Jn 5:4]. For faith is a mystery held in a pure conscience [1 Tim 3:9], by which ye have access to God [Rom 5:2]; in which faith ye please God [Heb 11:6], in which faith ye have unity [Eph 4:13], which gives you the victory over that which separates from God—the enmity. In that faith be joyful, which is the faith of God's elect [Tit 1:1], that brings them over the world, and to that which was before the foundation of it. And this is the faith the just lives by [Rom 1:17, Hab 2:4], by which he is saved and justified, by which he lives and conquers, and hath the victory over the unjust; glory to the Highest!

GF7: 297 (1667): where there is true faith there is victory [1 Jn 5:4], and building one another up in the holy faith [Jude 1:20]; but out of this faith there is no building, no victory; but Cain, the sacrificer, persecuting Abel [Gen 4:3-8].

GF8: 179 (1679): Likewise, true liberty is in the faith, which Jesus Christ is the author and finisher of [Heb 12:2], which gives victory [1 Jn 5:4] over that which separated man and woman from God, and by which they have access to God [Rom 5:2] again.

JN1: 51 (1653): that which is born of God overcomes the world [1 Jn 5:4], sin and the devil, and is kept out of all uncleanness in which the carnal mind corrupts himself.

IP3: 406 (1677): Doth not this faith give victory over the world [1 Jn 5:4] (over the worldly nature and spirit within, over the worldly nature and spirit without also)? Can any other faith give victory?

WPR 334 (1673): Again, the Scripture cannot be the rule of faith, because it cannot give faith; for faith is the gift of God [Eph 2:8], which overcomes the world [1 Jn 5:4]; neither of practice, because it cannot distinguish of itself in all cases what ought to be practiced, and what not.

SBD 20 (1750): If thee is devoted in thy mind to follow [the Spirit], thee will become fruitful in religion, and thy faith will be both living and powerful in thee, to give victory over the world [1 Jn 5:4], that natural part in thee that would not submit to the testimony of Jesus, nor believe in the only begotten son of God [Jn 3:18].

(1 Jn 5:6-8)

GF7: 148 (1657): And here is the water which is the witness in the earth, which doth wash; and here comes the spirit to be known, the witness which doth baptize, and the witness the blood, which doth cleanse, which agrees with the witness in heaven [1 Jn 5:6-8]. So, he that believes hath the witness in himself [1 Jn 5:10]. (Mark and take notice.)

(1 Jn 5:6)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 5:6: JN1:130 (John 4:22- 24)]

(1 Jn 5:7)

IP1: 312f (1660) [quotes 1 Jn 5:7 in reply to Massachusetts Puritans' claim that Quaker view of Trinity is destructive]

WPR 230 (1668; WPT 37): Mistake me not, we have never disowned a Father, Word, and Spirit, which are ONE [1 Jn 5:7], but mens Inventions;

WPR 504 (1693): They believe in the Holy Three or Trinity of Father, Word and Spirit... And that these three are truly and properly one [1 Jn 5:7]: of one Nature as well as Will. [substantive discussion follows]

(1 Jn 5:7f)

GF8: 10f (1669): With the light they see, and come to know the "three that bear record in heaven," and the "three that bear record on earth, the spirit, the water, and the blood." [1 Jn 5:7f. There follows a detailed description of the functions of spirit, water and blood. More under Heb 9:13f]

GF6:359 (1687): [quote 1 Jn 5:7f] And is it not the spirit of God that mortifies the deeds of the flesh [Rom 8:13], and the water of the word that washes [Eph 5:26], and the blood of Christ that cleanseth [1 Jn 1:7]? Are not these three ...God's witnesses in the earth? And the Lord saith, "Out of the mouth of two or three witnesses (namely, men witnesses,) every word is established [Mat 18:16] among men, but the witness of God is greater" than the witness of men.

(1 Jn 5:9f)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 5:9f: GFJN 122 (under Mat 27:52), GF8:252 (2 Pet 2:3), MFU 61f (John 8:9), MFU 72 (Rev 11:7f), MFU 210f (Mat 25:25), JN2:199 (1 Jn 4:3), IP3:108 (Rom 2:15), IP3:145 (Mar 16:15), EQ 125 (Luk 9:56), HPS 468 (Heb 3:8), HPS 531 (John 13:35)]

GF7: 118 (1656): For the seed, in which the blessing is, is felt, and the life, and the light, and the righteousness, and the truth, that answers the witness of God in all men and women [Col 4:6/1 Jn 5:9f], whether they will hear or forbear [Ezek 2:5].

GF7: 193 (1661): So speak the truth, whether merchants or tradesmen, and all sorts of people whatsoever, in all your occasions, and in all your tradings, dealings, and doings, speak the truth, act in the truth, and walk in the truth; and this brings righteousness forth. For it answereth the witness of God in every one [Col 4:6/1Jn 5:9f]; which lets every one see all the deeds and actions they have done amiss [2 Chr 6:37], and words which they have spoken amiss. So the witness of God within them ariseth a swift witness against them ... and brings them to the judgment bar, and to condemnation. Here righteousness goes forth, and here the sweet savour to the Lord God [2 Cor 2:15] begins to ascend; and truth and equity arise both to be acted and spoken.

GF8: 41 (1672): Be faithful in the power of the Lord God, in what you know, and then the Lord will preserve you; that you may answer the witness of God in every man [Col 4:6/1 Jn 5:9f], whether they are the heathen, that do not profess Christ, or whether they are such as do profess Christ, that have the form of godliness, and are out of the power [2 Tim 3:5].

TEM 31: But he, being sensible that I was truly reached, and that the witness of God [1 Jn 5:9f] was raised and the work of God rightly begun in me, chose to leave me to the guidance of the good Spirit in myself [Neh 9:20] (the Counsellor [Isa 9:6] that would resolve all doubts, that I might not have any dependence on man.

(1 Jn 5:10)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 5:10: GFJN 221 (1 Jn 3:16), GF3:518 (John 3:18), GF3:551 (under Gen 4:12-14), GF7:148 (1 Jn 5:6-8), GF7:244 (John 8:14), JN2:60 (Mat 16:18, Mat 23:16)]

GF8: 56 (1674): There is a belief that God is not the author of, for such have not the witness in themselves [1 Jn 5:10] of what they do believe; and a belief may be of God and Christ, and of the scriptures, and yet such may be in death, for they are not in Christ the light, and so are not children of the light [John 12:36];

JN1: 127 (1653): And whereas thou talkest of trying the light by the letter, if thou hadst him who is the eternal witness within himself, [1 Jn 5:10] thou wouldst see thou needest not to try the inward substance by the outward declaration, the living by the dead.

JN1: 228 (1653): The world's record is without them. The saints' record is within them; the spirit that God hath given into them is their record. [1 Jn 5:10]

JN2:193 (1655): that faith is reprobate, and thou that knows not Christ in thee art the infidel, for he that believes hath the witness in himself [1 Jn 5:10].

IP3: 253 (1672): For this is the distinction between the true believer and the false: the true believer hath the spirit of prophecy [Rev 19:10], the witness in himself, 1 John 5:10. The false believer hath but the outward testimony or relation of things; but not the inward substance, the covenant and law of life within.

(1 Jn 5:9f)

(1 Jn 5:11f)

GF7: 172 (1659): Therefore all of you, feel this eternal life abiding in you; for he that hath the son of God, hath life eternal [1Jn 5:11f]; and so, in this eternal life ye have fellowship with God and his son [1 Jn 1:3], and with one another [1 Jn 1:7]; and in this, the law of life, that is in Jesus Christ, passeth sentence on the law of sin and death [Rom 8:2] in every man and woman, and brings it to the execution.

(1 Jn 5:12)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 5:12: GF5:190 (under Luk 24:48), IP1:246 (John 10:30), IP2: 451 (1 Jn 5:20)]

MFU 52 (1653): Who hath Life, hath the Son, and who hath not the Son, hath not Life [1 Jn 5:12].

JN2: 545f (1655): speaking of the manifestation of God, thou says "in that one person, not in divers"; and this is to deny the Father and the Son [1 Jn 2:22]; for he that hath not the Father hath not the Son, and he that hath not the Son hath not life [1 Jn 5:12].

(1 Jn 5:14)

GF7: 203 (1661): So happy are ye ... who have your confidence and assurance in him [1 Jn 5:14 AV,G]

RBA 334 (1678, XI.22): all prayer without the Spirit is abomination, such as are "the prayers of the wicked" (Prov 28:9), and the confidence that the saints have that God will hear them, is if they "ask anything according to his will" [1 Jn 5:14].

(1 Jn 5:17)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 5:17: MFU 164 (Jas 2:10)].

GFJN 52: They said, "If a man steal it is no sin?" I answered, "All unrighteousness is sin." [1 Jn 5:17]

HPS 344 (Elizabeth Bathurst, 1679): this is the Testimony this People bears today against the corrupt Ways and Practices of the World, both among Professors and Profane, telling them plainly, That all Unrighteousness is Sin [1 Jn 5:17];

(1 Jn 5:18)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 5:18: JN1: 237 (under 1 Jn 3:9f)]

IP3: 133 (1668): Yea, did they not so keep themselves, as that the wicked one could not touch them? [1 Jn 5:18] How could he, when they had overcome him, and abode in that which overcame him?

IP3: 184 (1668): He that is born of God sinneth not [1 Jn 5:18], but obeyeth the grace [Rom 6:14]; but he that committeth sin, is the servant of sin [John 8:44], and not yet made free by the grace and power of the Son, from it.

(1 Jn 5:19)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 5:19: GF6:11 (under Mat 15:13), GF7: 17 (John 1:10), GF8:287 (1 Jn 4:4), HPS 183 (Mat 10:22)]

GF7: 33 (1653): and ye that hear the word, wait in the light, which comes from the word, which leads up to the word which was in the beginning [John 1:1], which breaks the world to pieces that lies in wickedness [1 Jn 5:19], and burns it as with a fire [Jer 23:29; 1 Jn 5:19]; and divides asunder the precious from the vile [Jer 15:19].

GF8: 12 (1669): And who are they that make the land desolate, but the rough Esaus [Gen 27:11 Geneva], and wild Ishmaels [Gen 16:12], and Cores [Num 16]? And who makes the world as a wilderness [Isa 14:17] but the devil? and who brings the whole world to lie in wickedness [1 Jn 5:19], but the devil, that wicked one?

GF8: 251 (1684): But "be of good cheer, Christ hath overcome the world [John 16:33],"; that lieth in wickedness [1 Jn 5:19], and all the persecutors in it; and in him you all overcome the devil and his works [Heb 2:14/1 Jn 3:8], and "without him you can do nothing [John 15:5];" but through Christ, and his power and strength, you will be able to do all things according to the will of God.

JN2: 215 (16tt): All you that are in the world, who lie in wickedness [1 Jn 5:19], God so loveth you that he hath sent his son into the world to you [John 3:16], a witness against the world and the deeds of it, that they are evil [John 3:19];

(1 Jn 5:20)

Other texts citing 1 Jn 5:20: GF8:155 (1 Jn 2:6), MFU 59 (1 Jn 4:1), IP4:34 (Rev 22:17), HPS 355 (John 14:28)]

GF5: 126 (1675): quotes 5:20 (Geneva): But we know that that Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind to know him, which is true, and "we are in him that is true, [mark, that is,] in his Son Jesus Christ," this same is very God, and eternal life.

GF7: 244 (1663): no true understanding of spiritual things, but what Christ gives; [1 Jn 5:20]

IP1: 61 (1658): The knowledge of Christ is not literal, traditional, or fleshly, nor can it be received by the natural understanding; but it is spiritual, and the understanding must be given by God which receives it. "He hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true." 1 John 5:20.

IP2: 451 (1666): He that hath the Son, hath life, even the life eternal [1 Jn 5:12], which the words testify of. He that hath the Son hath him which is true; and he that is in the Son is in him that is true [1 Jn 5:20]; and abiding there, cannot be deceived; but he that is not there is deceived, let him apprehend and gather out of the Scriptures what he can.

IP3: 500f (1673): ...to them the pure understanding and language is given, whereby they know and understand, not only words concerning Him, but Him himself who is true, and are in him that is true, even in Him who is the very God and life eternal [1 Jn 5:20]

SBD 18f (1750): But what means the Apostle by saying, "He has given us an understanding" [1 Jn 5:20]? He can mean no other than a spiritual one. For they doubtless had understandings as natural men before; but by that natural understanding they could not perceive the things of the Spirit of God [1 Cor 2:14]....

(1 Jn 5:21)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 5:21: GF7:129 (under Mat 22:37)]

GF4:385 (1671): The apostle saith, "Little children, keep yourselves from idols" [1 Jn 5:21]...; but you who call yourselves christians have forgot this command, or at least laid it aside, and command your people to keep to your images, pictures, idols, and representations ....

JN2: 282 (1655): Is this thy way to keep from idols [1 Jn 5:21], by denying faith in the infallible Spirit?

IP1: 55f (1658): [quotes 1 Jn 5:21] Now, what is an idol? [Long discussion; see also under 1 Jn 4:3]

IP1:159 (1659): [quotes 1 Jn 5:21] .... how shall they keep from idols, who know not the anointing [1 Jn 2:27], but think the revelations thereof are ceased? He that buyeth not the tried gold of Christ [Rev 3:18], how can he avoid buying untried gold of antichrist, or silver, or brass, or wood, or stone, which is merchants traffic for, and make idols of? Rev 9:20.... Idolatry is the worshipping of God without his spirit (that is the plain, naked truth of the thing).