Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

Footnotes

1. 1 John 2:1 It followeth not hereof that we must give our wicked nature the bridle, or sin so much the more freely, because our sins are cleansed away by the blood of Christ but we must rather so much more diligently resist sin. And yet we must not despair because of our weakness, for we have an Advocate and a purger, Christ Jesus the just, and therefore acceptable unto his father.
2. 1 John 2:1 In that he nameth Christ he shutteth forth all other.
3. 1 John 2:2 Reconciliation and intercession go together, to give us to understand that he is both advocate and high Priest.
4. 1 John 2:2 For men of all sorts, of all ages and all places, so that this benefit belongeth not to the Jews only, of whom he speaketh, as appeareth 1 John 2:7, but also to other nations.
5. 1 John 2:3 He returneth to the testimony of our conjunction with God, to wit, to sanctification, declaring what it is to walk in the light, to wit, to keep God’s commandments whereby it followeth that holiness doth not consist in those things which men have devised, neither in a vain profession of the Gospel.
6. 1 John 2:3 This must be understood of such a knowledge, as hath faith with it, and not of a common knowledge.
7. 1 John 2:3 For the tree is known by the fruit.
8. 1 John 2:4 Holiness, that is, a life ordered according to the prescript of God’s commandments how weak soever they be, is of necessity joined with faith, that is, with the true knowledge of the Father in the Son.
9. 1 John 2:5 He that keepeth God’s commandments loveth God indeed. He that loveth God, is in God, or is joined together with God. Therefore he that keepeth his commandments, is in him.
10. 1 John 2:5 Wherewith we love God.
11. 1 John 2:5 He meaneth our conjunction with Christ.
12. 1 John 2:6 He that is one with Christ must needs live his life, that is, must walk in his steps.