what we have seen and heard we also declare to you, so that you may also have fellowship(A) with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father(B) and with his Son, Jesus Christ. We are writing these things[a] so that our[b] joy(C) may be complete.

Fellowship with God

This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light,(D) and there is absolutely no darkness in him.(E)

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