1 John 5:9
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness of God that he has testified concerning his Son.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
8the Spirit and the water, and blood: and these three are one.
Cross References
Matthew 3:16And Jesus having been baptized, came up straightway from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened and He saw the Spirit of God, descending like a dove, coming on Him.
John 3:32the one being of the earth is of the earth, and speaks of the earth. The one coming from heaven witnesses what He has seen and heard, and no one receives His testimony.
John 5:39Search the Scriptures, because in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are they which testify concerning me;
John 10:38If I do, believe not me, believe the works: that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.
Acts 17:31as He has appointed a day, in which he is about to judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; giving faith to all, having raised Him from the dead.
Hebrews 6:18that through two immutable things in which it was impossible that God should lie, we who have fled may have a strong consolation to lay 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 →