1 John 4:14

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Summary

1 John 4:14

And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

We have

The father

1 John 4:10

John 3:34

John 5:36

General references

Luke 19:10

Bible References

We have

It is of what existed from the very beginning, of what we heard, of what we saw, of what we witnessed and touched with our own hands, it is of the Logos of Life

If we accept human testimony, God's testimony is greater; for God's testimony consists in his testimony to his Son.

So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory ??glory such as an only son enjoys from his father ??seen it to be full of grace and reality.

Truly, truly I tell you, we are speaking of what we do understand, we testify to what we have actually seen ??and yet you refuse our testimony.

You search the scriptures, imagining you possess eternal life in their pages ??and they do testify to me ??40 but you refuse to come to me for life.

When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth which issues from the Father, he will bear witness to me;

By the time Silas and Timotheus came south from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in this preaching of the word, arguing to the Jews that the messiah was Jesus.

By the hand of Silvanus, a faithful brother (in my opinion), I have written you these few lines of encouragement, to testify that this is what the true grace of God means. Stand in that grace.

The father

Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us ??in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

For he whom God has sent utters the words of God ??God gives him the Spirit in no sparing measure;

But I possess a testimony greater than that of John, for the deeds which the Father has granted me to accomplish, the very deeds on which I am engaged, are my testimony that the Father has sent me.

General references

For the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost."