1 John 1:5
And this is the message which we have heard from him, and announce to you, That God is light, and in him there is no darkness.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
4And these things we write to you, that your joy may be full.
6If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth;
Cross References
John 1:4In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
John 8:12Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying: I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.
John 12:35Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he that walks in the darkness knows not whither he goes.
1 Timothy 6:16who only has immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable; whom no man has seen, or can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.
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 →