1 John 1:5

New Catholic Bible

Walk in the Light

⁵This is the message
that we have heard from him
and that we declare to you:
God is light,
and there is no darkness^[b] at all in him.

1 John 1:5 There is no fellowship with God in the absence of faith or love. Christians do not achieve fellowship with God the Light (see Jn 8:12) by giving themselves over to Illuminism or by some magical rite; they do so by believing in the Redemption brought about by Christ’s Passion and by living in the truth (see Jn 3:31), i.e., by entering into a life experience that keeps the commandments of the Gospel in a concrete manner.
1 John 1:5 Light . . . darkness: light represents all that is good, true, and holy, whereas darkness stands for all that is evil and false (see Jn 3:19-21).

⁵This is the message we have heard^(A) from him and declare to you: God is light;^(B) in him there is no darkness at all.

⁵This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

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