1 John 1:4

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

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

In Context

3What 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.

5This is the message that we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

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Cross References

John 3:29He who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and listens for him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine has been made full.

John 16:24Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask, and you will receive, so that your joy may be full.

Ephesians 3:19is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

1 John 2:1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the righteous one.

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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