1 John 1:3
what we have seen and heard we also declare to you, so that ye also may have fellowship with us. Even also our fellowship with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4And we write these things to you, so that our joy may be made full.
Cross References
Numbers 10:32And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that whatever good LORD shall do to us, the same we will do to thee.
Psalms 2:7I will tell of the decree. LORD said to me, Thou are my son, this day I have begotten thee.
Isaiah 66:19And I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory, a
John 17:3And this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only TRUE God, and Jesus Christ whom thou sent.
John 17:21so that they may all be one, just as thou, Father, are in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou sent me.
Acts 2:42And they were continuing steadfastly in the apostles doctrine, and in fellowship, and in the breaking of bread, and the prayers.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 1:2-5
First John Though the continued tradition of the church attests that this epistle came from John the apostle, yet we may observe some other evidence that will confirm (or with some perhaps even outweigh) the certainty of that tradition. It should seem that the penman was one of the apostolical college by the sensible palpable assurance he had of the truth of the Mediator's person in his human nature: That which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled,… Read the whole commentary →