1 John 1:5
And this is the annunciation which we have heard from him, and announce to you, that Aloha is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
4And these write we unto you, that our joy which is in you may be complete.
Cross References
John 1:4In him was life, and the life is the light of the sons of man;
John 8:12BUT again spake Jeshu with them, and said, I am the Light of the world: he who followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall find the light of life.
John 12:35Jeshu saith to them, A little further time is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, that the darkness overtake you not. And whoever walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
1 Timothy 6:16he who only is incorruptible, and (who) dwelleth in light which no man can approach; whom no man of men hath seen, nor is able to see: to him be honour and power for ever and ever. 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 →