1 John 1: Verse-by-Verse Commentary (with Videos)

10 verses · 1 video commentaries from 1 course · Berean Standard Bible

¹That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life.

²And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.

³We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.

⁴We write these things so that our joy may be complete.

⁵And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

⁶If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

⁷But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

⁸If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

⁹If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

¹⁰If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.

1 John 1 Verse Notes

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The 'We' Passages in Acts as a Ploy of Authentication

Bart Ehrman says the first-person 'we' passages in Acts, such as the one about Philippi in Acts 16, begin and end abruptly with no introduction of the narrator. He used to teach that the author was copying fragments of someone else's travel diary, but changed his mind about ten years ago: he now thinks the 'we' is a ploy to authenticate the account, like the first-person claims in 2 Peter, 1 John and later works such as the Gospel of Peter and the Apostolic Constitutions. Because the author gives no name, Ehrman calls Acts a non-pseudepigraphic forgery and does not think its author was a companion of Paul.

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