1 John 1:1
The Prologue to the Letter
1:1 This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched (concerning the word of life –
1 John 1:7
1:7 But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses
us from all sin.
1 John 2:22
2:22 Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ
? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.
1 John 3:1-2
3:1 (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children – and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.
3:2 Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.
1 John 3:9
3:9 Everyone who has been fathered
by God does not practice sin,
because
God’s
seed
resides in him, and thus
he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.
1 John 4:10
4:10 In this
is love: not that
we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice
for our sins.
1 John 4:17
4:17 By this
love is perfected with
us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus
is, so also are we in this world.
1 John 5:1
5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ
has been fathered
by God, and everyone who loves the father
loves the child fathered by him.
1 John 5:4
5:4 because
everyone
who has been fathered by God
conquers
the world.
Testimony About the Son
This is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith.
1 John 5:16
5:16 If
anyone sees his fellow Christian
committing a sin not resulting in death,
he should ask, and God
will grant
life to the person who commits a sin not resulting in death.
There is a sin resulting in death.
I do not say that he should ask about that.
1 John 5:18
5:18 We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.