1 John 1:5
And the same message which we have heard from him, we also proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
4And we write the same things to you, in order that our joy may be full.
6If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
Cross References
John 1:4In Him was life, and the life was the light of the men.
John 8:12Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world: the one following me can not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of the life.
John 12:35Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk about as you have the light, in order that the darkness may not overtake you: and he that walketh about in darkness does not know where he is going.
1 Timothy 6:16he alone having immortality, inhabiting light unapproachable; whom no one of men has seen, or is able to see: to whom be honor and power eternal. 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 →