1 John 1:4

and these things we write to you, that your joy may be full.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3that which we have seen and heard declare we to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ;

5And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;

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Cross References

Isaiah 61:10I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.

John 3:29he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled.

John 16:24till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

Ephesians 3:19to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled — to all the fulness of God;

1 John 2:1My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

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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