⁵This is the message we have heard^k from him and declare to you: God is light;^l in him there is no darkness at all. ⁶If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness,^m we lie and do not live out the truth.ⁿ ⁷But if we walk in the light,^o as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all^b sin.^p

⁸If we claim to be without sin,^q we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.^r ⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins^s and purify us from all unrighteousness.^t ¹⁰If we claim we have not sinned,^u we make him out to be a liar^v and his word is not in us.^w

2My dear children,^x I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate^y with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. ²He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins,^z and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.^a

Read in Logos

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

bOr every

Cross references

k 1 Jn 3:11
l 1 Ti 6:16
m Jn 3:19–21; 8:12; 2 Co 6:14; Eph 5:8; 1 Jn 2:11
n Jn 3:19–21; 1 Jn 2:4; 4:20
o Isa 2:5
p Heb 9:14; Rev 1:5; 7:14
q Pr 20:9; Jer 2:35; Ro 3:9–19; Jas 3:2
r Jn 8:44; 1 Jn 2:4
s Ps 32:5; 51:2; Pr 28:13
tver 7; Mic 7:18–20; Heb 10:22
uver 8
v 1 Jn 5:10
w Jn 5:38; 1 Jn 2:14
xver 12, 13, 28; 1 Jn 3:7, 18; 4:4; 5:21; See 1 Th 2:11
ySee Ro 8:34; 1 Ti 2:5
z Ro 3:25; 1 Jn 4:10
aSee Mt 1:21; See Jn 3:17