1 John 1:4

And these things we write to you, that your joy may be full.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

In Context

3that which we have seen and heard, we declare it to you, that you also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

5And this is the message that we heard from him, and do declare to you: that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

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Cross References

John 3:29He that has the bride, is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly on account of the voice of the bridegroom. This, my joy, is therefore complete.

John 16:24Till this time you have asked for nothing in my name; ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.

Ephesians 3:19and to know the love of the Christ that passes our knowledge, that you may be filled with aft the fullness of God.

1 John 2:1My little children, I write these things to you, that you may not sin: and yet, if any one sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

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 →

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