1 John 5:19

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.
American Standard Version

Treated in 6 passages across the library.

  1. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.3 The Preface to the Commandments cites 1 John 5: 19

    …e be which go in thereat.’ Matt 7: 13. The greatest part of the world lies in wickedness. 1 John 5: 19. Divide the world, says Brerewood, into thirty-one parts, nineteen parts of it are posses…

  2. A Plain Account of Christian Perfection · John Wesley

    Section 25 cites 1 John 5:19

    … answer hold, if any affirm, that it belongs only to the lowest class? “Consider likewise 1 John 5:19: ‘We know that we are of God.’ How? ’By the Spirit that he hath given us.’ Nay, ‘hereby w…

  3. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life · William Law

    Showing how difficult the practice of humility is made, by the general spirit and temper of the world. How Christianity requireth us to live contrary to the world cites 1 John v. 19

    …" saith the same Apostle, "that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness." [1 John v. 19] Christians, therefore, can no farther know that they are of God, than so far as they kno…

  4. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    On Friendship with the World cites 1 John 5:19

    …er, verse 19, “We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the wicked one.” [1 John 5:19] Here “the world” plainly means, those that are not of God, and who, consequently “Lie in…

  5. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    The New Birth cites 1 John 5:19

    …es the world. The world is at variance with God, "The whole world lieth in the Evil One" (1 John 5:19). It is under the dominion of the Evil One, ruled by his ambitions and ideas. The world i…

  6. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.2 The Second Commandment cites 1 John 5: 19

    …: 4. (4) By loving God we know that he loves us. ‘We love him because he first loved us.’ 1 John 5: 19. If ice melts, it is because the sun has shone upon it; so if the frozen heart melts in l…

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