1 John 4:13
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What does 1 John 4:13 mean?
Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in
us
That there is a communion between God and us, and a communication
of his love and grace to us, and an exercise of grace upon him;
for God dwells in his people by his Spirit and grace, and they
dwell in him by the exercise of faith and love upon him: and this
is known,
because he hath given us of his Spirit:
not of the essence and nature of the Spirit, which is the same
with the nature of the Father and of the Son, and is
incommunicable; but either of the gifts of the Spirit, which are
divided to every man as he pleases, and which being bestowed on
men, and used by them, for the profit and advantage of the church
of God, show that God is with them, and dwells among them of a
truth; or of the graces of the Spirit, such as faith, hope, and
love, which are each the gifts of God; and these being bestowed
and exercised, are proofs of the mutual indwelling of God and his
people; (See Gill on 1
John 3:24).
