1 John 1:5

This is the Message which we have heard from the Lord Jesus and now deliver to you--God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

In Context

4And we write these things in order that our joy may be made complete.

6If, while we are living in darkness, we profess to have fellowship with Him, we speak falsely and are not adhering to the truth.

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Cross References

John 1:4In Him was Life, and that Life was the Light of men.

John 8:12Once more Jesus addressed them. "I am the Light of the world," He said; "the man who follows me shall certainly not walk in the dark, but shall have the light of Life."

John 12:35"Yet a little while," He replied, "the light is among you. Be faithful to the light that you have, for fear darkness should overtake you; for a man who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.

1 Timothy 6:16who alone possesses immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, and whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be eternal honour and 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 →

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