1 John 1:4

And we are writing all this to you that our joy may be complete.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3It is what we have seen and heard that we are announcing to you, in order that you also may have partnership with us; and our partnership is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

5This, then, is the message that we have heard from him, and are announcing to you, that God is light, and no darkness what ever is in him.

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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 hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. So then this joy of mine has now complete fulfilment.

John 16:24"Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.

Ephesians 3:19and may know the love of Christ which transcends all knowing, so that you may be filled with all the "plenitude" of God.

1 John 2:1My children, I am writing this to you that you may not continue to sin; but if any one sin, we ever have a Comforter before the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.

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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