1st John Chapter 4 verse 14 Holy Bible
And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son `to be' the Saviour of the world.
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And we have seen and give witness that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
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And *we* have seen, and testify, that the Father has sent the Son [as] Saviour of the world.
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And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
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We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
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And we -- we have seen and do testify, that the Father hath sent the Son -- Saviour of the world;
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1st John 4 : 14 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - And we have beheld, and do bear witness. The emphatic ἡμεῖς clearly means "we apostles;" and "beheld" τεθέαμεθα implies contemplation with bodily eyes, as in verse 12. The invisible God can be only "invisibly seen" by the pure heart. But the incarnate Son has been visibly contemplated; and to bear witness of this fact was the very office of an apostle (John 15:27; Acts 1:8). The language of this verse, as of chapter 1 John 1:1, 3, would be strained and rather unreal in one who had not seen the Christ in the flesh. Note that σωτῆρα has no article, and is not in mere apposition, but is a second predicate: "The Father hath sent [see on verse 10] the Son as Saviour," i.e., to be such. "The world," as commonly in St. John's writings, is specially the unregenerate among the human race.