14 And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,
Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God, and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,
and whatever ye may ask in my name, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;
ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend `it'.
in whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence through the faith of him,
and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him; and let him ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he who is doubting hath been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and tossed,
Call unto Me, and I do answer thee, yea, I declare to thee great and fenced things -- thou hast not known them.
They cried, and Jehovah heard, And from all their distresses delivered them.
and we have known that God doth not hear sinners, but, if any one may be a worshipper of God, and may do His will, him He doth hear;
and all -- as much as ye may ask in the prayer, believing, ye shall receive.'
Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,
For Jehovah hearkeneth unto the needy, And His bound ones He hath not despised.
And I -- I have said in my haste, `I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee.
for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,
and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.
`Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened. `Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask a loaf -- a stone will he present to him? and if a fish he may ask -- a serpent will he present to him? if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who `is' in the heavens give good things to those asking him?
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Commentary on 1 John 5 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 5
In this chapter the apostle asserts,
1Jo 5:1-5
1Jo 5:6-9
The faith of the Christian believer (or the believer in Christ) being thus mighty and victorious, it had need to be well founded, to be furnished with unquestionable celestial evidence concerning the divine mission, authority, and office of the Lord Jesus; and it is so; he brings his credentials along with him, and he brings them in a way by which he came and in the witness that attends him.
1Jo 5:10-13
In those words we may observe,
1Jo 5:14-17
Here we have,
1Jo 5:18-21
Here we have,