1 John 1:4

And these things we write to you, that our joy in you may be complete.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3And what we have seen and heard, we make known to you also, that ye may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus the Messiah.

5And this is the announcement, which we have heard from him and declare to you, that God is light, and no darkness at all is in him.

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Cross References

John 3:29He that hath the bride, is the bridegroom: and the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and listeneth to him, rejoiceth with great joy on account of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy, therefore, lo, it is full.

John 16:24Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and ye will receive; that your joy may be complete.

Ephesians 3:19and may know the greatness of the Messiah's love; and that ye may be filled with all the fullness of God.

1 John 2:1My children, these things I write to you, that ye sin not. But if any one should sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus the Messiah, 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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