Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Resumption of the main theme (1 John 2:29). Love, the sum of righteousness, is the test of our being born of God. Love flows from a sense of God's love to us: compare 1 John 4:9 with 1 John 3:16, which 1 John 4:9 resumes; and 1 John 4:13 with 1 John 3:24, which similarly 1 John 4:13 resumes. At the same time, 1 John 4:7-21 is connected with the immediately preceding context, 1 John 4:2 setting forth Christ's incarnation, the great proof of God's love (1 John 4:10).
Beloved--an address appropriate to his subject, "love."
love--All love is from God as its fountain: especially that embodiment of love, God manifest in the flesh. The Father also is love (1 John 4:8). The Holy Ghost sheds love as its first fruit abroad in the heart.
knoweth God--spiritually, experimentally, and habitually.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
1 John 4:7
1 John 4:16
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