1 John 1
1
God Forgives Our Sins
1We write you now about something that has always existed.
We have heard.
We have seen with our own eyes.
We have watched,
and we have touched with our hands.
We write to you about the Word# The Greek word is “logos,” meaning any kind of communication. It could be translated “message.” Here, it means Christ. Christ was the way God told people about himself. that gives life. 2He who gives life was shown to us. We saw him, and we can give proof about it. And now we tell you that he has life that continues forever. The one who gives this life was with God the Father. God showed him to us. 3Now we tell you what we have seen and heard because we want you to have fellowship with us. The fellowship we share together is with God the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ. 4We write this to you so that we may be full of joy.# Some Greek copies read “so that you may be full of joy.”
5Here is the message we have heard from God and now tell to you: God is light,# This word is used to show what God is like. It means goodness or truth. and in him there is no darkness at all. 6So if we say that we have fellowship with God, but we continue living in darkness, then we are liars. We do not follow the truth. 7God is in the light. We should live in the light, too. If we live in the light, we share fellowship with each other. And when we live in the light, the blood of the death of Jesus, God’s Son, is making us clean from every sin.
8If we say that we have no sin, we are fooling ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9But if we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins. We can trust God. He does what is right. He will make us clean from all the wrongs we have done. 10If we say that we have not sinned, then we make God a liar. We do not accept God’s true teaching.
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1 John 1
1
God Forgives Our Sins
1We write you now about something that has always existed.
We have heard.
We have seen with our own eyes.
We have watched,
and we have touched with our hands.
We write to you about the Word# The Greek word is “logos,” meaning any kind of communication. It could be translated “message.” Here, it means Christ. Christ was the way God told people about himself. that gives life. 2He who gives life was shown to us. We saw him, and we can give proof about it. And now we tell you that he has life that continues forever. The one who gives this life was with God the Father. God showed him to us. 3Now we tell you what we have seen and heard because we want you to have fellowship with us. The fellowship we share together is with God the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ. 4We write this to you so that we may be full of joy.# Some Greek copies read “so that you may be full of joy.”
5Here is the message we have heard from God and now tell to you: God is light,# This word is used to show what God is like. It means goodness or truth. and in him there is no darkness at all. 6So if we say that we have fellowship with God, but we continue living in darkness, then we are liars. We do not follow the truth. 7God is in the light. We should live in the light, too. If we live in the light, we share fellowship with each other. And when we live in the light, the blood of the death of Jesus, God’s Son, is making us clean from every sin.
8If we say that we have no sin, we are fooling ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9But if we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins. We can trust God. He does what is right. He will make us clean from all the wrongs we have done. 10If we say that we have not sinned, then we make God a liar. We do not accept God’s true teaching.
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