1 John 1:3

What we have seen and heard we declare to you, so that you also may have fellowship with us, and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

2This life was revealed; we have seen it, and we testify and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father and that was revealed to us.

4We are writing these things to you so that our joy may be full.

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Cross References

John 17:3This is eternal life, that they may know yoʋ, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom yoʋ have sent.

John 17:21that they may all be one, just as yoʋ, Father, are in me, and I am in yoʋ, that they also may be one in us, so that the world may believe that yoʋ sent me.

Acts 2:42And they devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

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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