1 John 3:17 KJV — MannaFest

1 John 3:17

But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

KJV

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ASV

But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

WEB

If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?

YLT

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?

DBT

But whoso may have the world's substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love ofGod in him?

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1 John — The aged apostle writes to churches in Asia Minor facing docetic teachers who deny the incarnation. Three tests interweave through five short chapters: walk in the light, love the brethren, confess Jesus come in the flesh.

Author: The apostle John — same author as the Gospel of John and 2/3 John; early church unanimous
Date: Late 1st century, c. AD 85–95, likely written from Ephesus

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54 verses on the floor

James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Hebrews 13:16
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 4:20
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
Isaiah 58:7–10
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

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It pleases God that some of the Christian brethren should be poor, for the exercise of the charity and love of those that are rich. And it pleases the same God to give to some of the Christian brethren this world's good, that they may exercise their grace in communicating to the poor saints.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The "bowels" mean the heart, the seat of compassion. how--How is it possible that "the love of (that is, 'to') God dwelleth (Greek, 'abideth') in him?" Our superfluities should yield to the necessities; our comforts, and even our necessaries in some measure, should yield to the extreme wants of our brethren. "Faith gives Christ to me; love flowing from faith gives me to my neighbor."

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

1JN 3:17PRO 19:17 HEB 6:10
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1JN 3:17PRO 19:17 PRO 28:27
1JN 3:17HEB 13:16 2TH 3:13
1JN 3:17HEB 13:16 GAL 6:10
1JN 3:17HEB 13:16 ROM 12:13
1JN 3:17PRO 19:17 LUK 6:38
1JN 3:17PRO 19:17 2CO 9:6-8
1JN 3:17HEB 13:16 HEB 13:1-2

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