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1 John 5:9

If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God’s testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.

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In The King James Version

If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

In Context

8the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and the three agree as one.

10He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

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Cross References

Matthew 3:16Jesus, when he was baptised, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

John 3:32What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.

John 5:39“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

John 10:38But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

Acts 17:31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

Hebrews 6:18that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Matthew Henry on 1 John 5:7-10

The Witnesses in Heaven and on Earth. ( a. d. 80.) 6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of… Read the whole commentary →

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