1 John 1:3
He whom we have seen and heard, we announce to you, so that you, too, may have fellowship with us, and so that our fellowship may be with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
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4And this we write to you, so that you may rejoice, and so that your joy may be full.
Cross References
Numbers 10:32And if you come with us, whatever will be best among the riches which the Lord will deliver to us, we will give to you.”
Psalms 2:7The Lord has said to me: You are my son, this day have I begotten you.
Isaiah 66:19And I will set a sign among them. And I will send some of those who will have been saved to the Gentiles in the sea, to Africa, and to those who draw the bow in Lydia, to Italy and Greece, to islands far away, to those who have not heard of me, and to those who have not seen my glory. And they will announce my glory to the Gentiles.
John 17:3And this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
John 17:21So may they all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me, and I am in you, so also may they be one in us: so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
Acts 2:42Now they were persevering in the doctrine of the Apostles, and in the communion of the breaking of the bread, and in 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 →