concerned to define what walking in the light or the darkness means than he is to explain the consequences of doing so. As noted in the commentary on 1:6, the consequences of walking in the darkness while claiming fellowship with God are that ‘we lie and do not live by the truth’. The consequences of walking in the light are spelled out in 1:7. These are twofold: The first consequence is, we have fellowship with one another. As people walk in the light with God, they have fellowship with one another.
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