 | Joseph Bellamy - 1811 - 584 էջ
...that committeth sin, is of the devil. Ver. 9. Whosoever is born of God, doth not commit sin. Ver. 10. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. This was the Apostolic criterion; and therefore if any pretended to conversion, if any pretended to... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 էջ
...sin, being born of God ; the other committeth sin, and is of the devil. And then John concludes ; " In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil," 1 John iii. 10. John yokes the law upon the sinner, who, he says, belongs to the devil, and who is... | |
 | John Wesley - 1811 - 450 էջ
...doth not commit sin : for his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil," (verse 7 — 10.) Here the point, which till then might possibly have admitted of some doubt in weak... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1811 - 612 էջ
...God, doth not commit sin, for his seed remaineth in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God: in this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; whosoever doeth not righteousness, is not of God." Now what can be the import of this passage? To interpret... | |
 | George Pretyman - 1811 - 614 էջ
...of it?" — p. 62. " We will not bear with those who put a wrong interpretation upon this passage, ' In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil (u) ;' as if some men were saved, and others perish by nature; for we come into this holy adoption,... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1811 - 408 էջ
...not commit sin : for " his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin, " because he is born of God : in this the children " of God are manifest, and the children of the " devil; whosoever doeth not righteousness is not " of God."4 If therefore any man be born of God, f 1 John... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1812 - 406 էջ
...literally from the original, By this \ife do know. — And how evidently is holy practice spoken of as the grand note of distinction between the children of God and the children of the devil) in ver. 1O. of the same chapter ? In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil.... | |
 | John Allen - 1812 - 172 էջ
...any stronger argument than that of John, " If God so loved us, we ought also to love one another ? In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil J ;" hereby the children of light, by their abiding in love, are distinguished from the children of... | |
 | John Howe - 1813 - 536 էջ
...life, is in a state of life : as you may find by comparing together several verses of the 1 John 3. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil : whosoever doth not righteousness, is not of God, (therefore he is of the devil,) neither he that... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1813 - 424 էջ
...operation in other cases. St. John's 1 Epistle iii. 8— K). "lie that committc th sin is of the* devil— in this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil" Now John, of all the aposdes the most amiable and the mildest, writing in the decline of life when... | |
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In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. 
