Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 John 3:7-10
1 John 3:7-10. Little, or beloved children, let no man deceive you In this important matter, by vain words, however serious and plausible they may seem to be. For a being, himself immutably holy, can never dispense with the want of holiness in his intelligent creatures. The apostle’s words imply, that some pretenders to inspiration had endeavoured to deceive the brethren, by teaching what the apostle here condemns. And as it is a solemn address of the apostle to the disciples, it shows... read more
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 John 3:8
He that committeth sin - Habitually, willfully, characteristically.Is of the devil - This cannot mean that no one who commits any sin, or who is not absolutely perfect, can be a Christian, for this would cut off the great mass, even according to the belief of those who hold that the Christian may be perfectly holy, from all claim to the Christian character. But what the apostle here says is true in two senses:That all who commit sin, even true believers, so far as they are imperfect, in this... read more