1 John 5:20.
NKJV. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
CLV. Yet we are aware that the Son of God is arriving, and has given us a comprehension, that we know the True One, and we are in the True One, in His Son, Jesus Christ. This One is the true God and life eonian.
To be given “an understanding”; Greek dianoia: “a way to understand” means that The Logos, the Son of God is the lens through which we view life and rightly comprehend His intent. He has “given us insight”, a clear heart vision to reflect our minds upon and know “the true God and eternal life”. To have inspired comprehension. (This is the Daystar.)
As in the NKJV here and most other translations, dianoia is often translated as understanding and even other times as mind. Comprehension is the best English word to capture its meaning.
This is what is meant when the Lord instructed:
Mark 12:30. ‘Love the Lord with all of your comprehension’ .
To love the Lord with all your comprehension requires sanctification from all worldly influences.
Paul refers to “the eye of your comprehension being enlightened”, and then refers to those who are alienated from the life of God as having their way of comprehension darkened resulting in “blindness of their hearts”. Ephesians 1:18, 4:18.
Jesus said:
Matthew 6:23. If the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
This follows from Jesus warning his disciples to avoid the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy. Luke 12:1. The traditional teachings of the Pharisees was the very thing that Paul had to renounce from his education to walk in the Spirit.
Colossians 2:8. Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty deception according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world rather than according to Christ.
Acts 26:18. To open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan unto God that they may receive remission of sin and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in Me.
1 Thessalonians 5:23. May the very God of peace sanctify you wholly and your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Peter also makes reference to this Truth:
2 Peter 3:1. Stir up your comprehension by way of remembrance:
Peter is speaking of a sound mind when he writes:
1 Peter 1:13. Wherefore gird up the loins of your comprehension, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
The expression ‘gird up the loins of your comprehension’ is a powerful image of a sound mind. Loins refers to the hips, our strongest weight-bearing joints, and critical for keeping our balance. God’s ‘ball and socket’ design is used extensively in modern engineering design. Therefore, a sober, pure and sincere mind keeps us walking in ‘the light of Truth’.
As Paul prays:
Philippians 1:9-11. And this I pray, that your love may abound in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve all things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness, by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Hebrews 8:10. I will put my laws in their comprehension.
NKJV. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
CLV. Yet we are aware that the Son of God is arriving, and has given us a comprehension, that we know the True One, and we are in the True One, in His Son, Jesus Christ. This One is the true God and life eonian.
To be given “an understanding”; Greek dianoia: “a way to understand” means that The Logos, the Son of God is the lens through which we view life and rightly comprehend His intent. He has “given us insight”, a clear heart vision to reflect our minds upon and know “the true God and eternal life”. To have inspired comprehension. (This is the Daystar.)
As in the NKJV here and most other translations, dianoia is often translated as understanding and even other times as mind. Comprehension is the best English word to capture its meaning.
This is what is meant when the Lord instructed:
Mark 12:30. ‘Love the Lord with all of your comprehension’ .
To love the Lord with all your comprehension requires sanctification from all worldly influences.
Paul refers to “the eye of your comprehension being enlightened”, and then refers to those who are alienated from the life of God as having their way of comprehension darkened resulting in “blindness of their hearts”. Ephesians 1:18, 4:18.
Jesus said:
Matthew 6:23. If the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
This follows from Jesus warning his disciples to avoid the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy. Luke 12:1. The traditional teachings of the Pharisees was the very thing that Paul had to renounce from his education to walk in the Spirit.
Colossians 2:8. Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty deception according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world rather than according to Christ.
Acts 26:18. To open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan unto God that they may receive remission of sin and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in Me.
1 Thessalonians 5:23. May the very God of peace sanctify you wholly and your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Peter also makes reference to this Truth:
2 Peter 3:1. Stir up your comprehension by way of remembrance:
Peter is speaking of a sound mind when he writes:
1 Peter 1:13. Wherefore gird up the loins of your comprehension, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
The expression ‘gird up the loins of your comprehension’ is a powerful image of a sound mind. Loins refers to the hips, our strongest weight-bearing joints, and critical for keeping our balance. God’s ‘ball and socket’ design is used extensively in modern engineering design. Therefore, a sober, pure and sincere mind keeps us walking in ‘the light of Truth’.
As Paul prays:
Philippians 1:9-11. And this I pray, that your love may abound in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve all things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness, by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Hebrews 8:10. I will put my laws in their comprehension.
