1 John 1:3
What we have seen and heard we are now explaining to you, so that you may also share in this friendship together with us—this friendship that is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
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4We're writing to tell you about this in order to make our happiness complete.
Cross References
Numbers 10:32If you come with us, whatever good things the Lord blesses us with we'll share with you.”
Psalms 2:7“I will proclaim the Lord's decree,” says the king. “He told me, ‘You are my son. Today I have become your father.
Isaiah 66:19I will give them a sign, and I will send some who survive to the nations. They will go to Tarshish, to the Libyans and Lydians (who are famous as archers), to Tubal and Greece, and to the distant lands that haven't heard about me or seen my glory. They will announce my glory among the nations.
John 17:3Eternal life is this: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you sent.
John 17:21I pray that they all may be one, just as you, Father, live in me, and I live in you, so that they too may live in us so that the world will believe you did send me.
Acts 2:42They committed themselves to what the apostles had taught them, and to the fellowship of the believers, “breaking bread” and praying together.
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 →