For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. (11) The first reason taken from the authority of God who gives the commandment.
10 Whosoever doeth not righteousness. To do righteousness and to do sin, are here set in opposition the one to the other. Then, to do righteousness is no other thing than to fear God from the heart, and to walk in his commandments as far as human weakness will permit; for though righteousness in a strict sense is a perfect keeping of the law, from...
For this is the message,.... Sent from God by Christ, or what he in his ministry declared, and is the commandment which was so frequently urged by him, Joh 13:34; that ye have heard from the beginning; of the preaching of the Gospel to them, and of their conversion; see Jo1 2:7; that we should love one another; to which the command of Christ, the...