New Testament

1 John 1

Witness, Light, and Confession

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Overview

John opens with eyewitness testimony to the incarnate Word of life, proclaims that God is pure light with whom genuine fellowship requires moral transparency, and insists that honest confession of sin — rather than its denial — opens the believer to God's forgiving and purifying faithfulness.

Passages

1–4The Word Made Touchable: Eyewitness Testimony and the Eternal Life Revealed 5–7God Is Light: Walking in the Light and True Fellowship 8–10The Reality of Sin and the Necessity of Confession

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1 John 1

¹That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life ²(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us); ³that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. ⁴And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

⁵This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. ⁶If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie and don’t tell the truth. ⁷But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. ⁸If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

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