1 John 1:5
This is the message that we have heard from him and are announcing to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.
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Psalms 27:1Yahweh is my light and my salvation; 1 whom should I fear? 1 Yahweh is my life's refuge; 1 whom should I dread? 1
Psalms 84:11For Yahweh God is our sun and shield; 1 Yahweh will give grace and glory; 1 he does not withhold any good thing from those who walk in integrity. 1
John 1:4In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
John 8:12Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”
John 12:35Jesus then said to them, “The light will still be with you for a short amount of time. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness does not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
1 Timothy 6:16Only he has immortality and dwells in inapproachable light. No man sees him or is able to view him. To him be honor and eternal power. 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 →