Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
17 Herein is our love made perfect There are two clauses in this passage, — that we are then partakers of divine adoption, when we resemble God as children their father; and, secondly, that this confidence is invaluable, for without it we must be most miserable.
Love to God gives us boldness in the day of judgment. When we love Him truly, we know ourselves loved by Him in return; we can lift our heads before the Judge knowing He is our friend. This assurance comes only from lovers of God.
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Commenting on 1 John 4:17-21
Herein is our love made perfect,.... Or love with us; which some understand of the love of God towards his people, and which is shed abroad in them: this indeed removes all fear of an awful judgment, and renders that amiable and desirable; and such who are interested in it, shall stand in that day with intrepidity and boldness; and this sense may seem to...