1 John 1:3
that which we have seen and heard we report to you, that *ye* also may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship [is] indeed with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
4And these things write we to you that your joy may be full.
Cross References
Numbers 10:32And it shall be, if thou come with us, that whatever good Jehovah doeth unto us, so will we do to thee.
Psalms 2:7I will declare the decree: Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; *I* this day have begotten thee.
Isaiah 66:19And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow; to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory: and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
John 17:3And this is the eternal life, that they should know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
John 17:21that they may be all one, as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Acts 2:42And they persevered in the teaching and fellowship of the apostles, in breaking of bread and 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 →