1 John 1:2
1:2 and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce
to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us).
1 John 1:5
God Is Light, So We Must Walk in the Light
1:5 Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.
1 John 2:8
2:8 On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you which is true in him
and in you, because
the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
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 3:24
3:24 And the person who keeps his commandments resides
in God,
and God
in him. Now by this
we know that God
resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.
1 John 4:7
God is Love
4:7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows 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 5:9
5:9 If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.
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.