1 John 1
Good News Translation
The Word of Life
1 (A)We write to you about the Word of life, which has existed from the very beginning. We have heard it, and we have seen it with our eyes; yes, we have seen it, and our hands have touched it. 2 (B)When this life became visible, we saw it; so we speak of it and tell you about the eternal life which was with the Father and was made known to us. 3 What we have seen and heard we announce to you also, so that you will join with us in the fellowship that we have with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 We write this in order that our[a] joy may be complete.
God Is Light
5 Now the message that we have heard from his Son and announce is this: God is light, and there is no darkness at all in him. 6 If, then, we say that we have fellowship with him, yet at the same time live in the darkness, we are lying both in our words and in our actions. 7 But if we live in the light—just as he is in the light—then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from every sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us. 9 But if we confess our sins to God, he will keep his promise and do what is right: he will forgive us our sins and purify us from all our wrongdoing. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make a liar out of God, and his word is not in us.
Footnotes
- 1 John 1:4 our; some manuscripts have your.
1 John 1
Worldwide English (New Testament)
1 The Word of life always was living, even from the beginning. We heard him. We saw him with our own eyes. We looked at him, and we touched him with our own hands. We are writing to you about this Word of life.
2 This life came to earth. We saw him, and we know about him. And we tell you about this life that lives for ever. This life was with the Father and came to us.
3 We tell you also what we have seen and heard. We tell you so that you also will belong with us. And we belong with the Father and the Son.
4 We write these things to you so that we all will be very happy.
5 God is like light and he is not dark at all. That is the message we heard from him. That is the message we are telling you.
6 Do we say that we belong with him? And at the same time, do we live in the dark? Then what we say is not true, and what we do is not right.
7 Do we live in the light, as God is in the light? Then we belong with others who belong to him. And the blood of the death of Jesus Christ makes us clean from all the wrong things we have done.
8 Do we say, `We have no wrong ways'? Then we are fooling ourselves, and we do not know what is true.
9 Let us tell God about our wrong ways. God can be trusted. He does what is right. He will forgive us for the wrong things we have done. He will make us clean from all that was wrong.
10 Do we say, `We have not done anything wrong'? This is like saying that God is not true. That means we do not accept God's word.
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