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1 John 1:5–2:11

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Walking in the Light

5lThis is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that mGod is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6nIf we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and odo not practice the truth. 7But pif we walk in the light, qas he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and rthe blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8sIf we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and tthe truth is not in us. 9uIf we confess our sins, he is vfaithful and just to forgive us our sins and rto cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10If we say we have not sinned, wwe make him a liar, and xhis word is not in us.

Christ Our Advocate

2My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, ywe have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2zHe is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but aalso for the sins of the whole world. 3And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we bkeep his commandments. 4Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments cis a liar, and cthe truth is not in him, 5but whoever dkeeps his word, in him truly ethe love of God is perfected. fBy this we may know that we are in him: 6whoever says he gabides in him hought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

The New Commandment

7Beloved, I am writing you ino new commandment, but jan old commandment kthat you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. 8At the same time, it is la new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because1 mthe darkness is passing away and nthe true light is already shining. 9Whoever says he is in the light and ohates his brother is still in darkness. 10Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him2 there is no pcause for stumbling. 11But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and qwalks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

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1 John 1:5: This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him is no darkness at all.

Footnotes

  1. 1Or that
  2. 2Or it

Cross references

  1. lch. 3:11
  2. mJames 1:17; [ch. 4:8; John 4:24]
  3. nch. 2:11; John 12:35; 2 Cor. 6:14
  4. oJohn 3:21
  5. p[Isa. 2:5]
  6. q[Ps. 104:2; 1 Tim. 6:16]
  7. rEph. 1:7; Heb. 9:14; 1 Pet. 1:19; Rev. 5:9; 7:14; 12:11
  8. s[Job 15:14; Jer. 2:35]; See James 3:2
  9. tch. 2:4
  10. uPs. 32:5; 51:3; Prov. 28:13
  11. v[Ps. 143:1; Rom. 3:26]
  12. r[See ver. 7 above]
  13. wch. 5:10
  14. xJohn 5:38; 8:37
  15. yRom. 8:34; 1 Tim. 2:5; Heb. 7:25
  16. zch. 4:10; Rom. 3:25; [2 Cor. 5:18, 19; Col. 1:20]
  17. ach. 4:14; John 1:29; 4:42; 11:51, 52; 12:32
  18. bJohn 14:15; 15:10
  19. cch. 1:8; John 8:44
  20. dch. 5:3; John 14:23
  21. ech. 4:12
  22. fch. 3:24; 4:13; 5:2
  23. gJohn 15:4, 5, 7
  24. hSee Matt. 11:29
  25. i2 John 5
  26. jLev. 19:18
  27. k[ver. 24; ch. 3:11; 2 John 5, 6]
  28. lSee John 13:34
  29. mRom. 13:12; Eph. 5:8; 1 Thess. 5:4, 5
  30. nJohn 1:9; 8:12
  31. och. 4:20; [ch. 3:14, 15; Titus 3:3]
  32. pJohn 11:10; [Prov. 4:19; 2 Pet. 1:10]
  33. qSee ch. 1:6

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