7K-First John
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1 John Chapter 1
1 John 1:1 (NKJV)
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life–
1 John 1:2 (CJB)
2 The life appeared, and we have seen it. We are testifying to it and announcing it to you — eternal life! He was with the Father, and he appeared to us.
1 John 1:3 (NIV)
3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
1 John 1:4 (NASB)
4 These things we write, so that our joy may be made complete.
1 John 1:5 (NASB)
5 This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.
1 John 1:6 (NASB)
6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;
1 John 1:7 (NASB)
7 but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 1:8 (NASB)
8 If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1:9 (7KB)
9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:10 (NASB)
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.
1 John Chapter 2
1 John 2:1 (NASB)
1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;
1 John 2:2 (NASB)
2 and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.
1 John 2:3 (CJB)
3 The way we can be sure we know him is if we are obeying his commands.
1 John 2:4 (NASB)
4 The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
1 John 2:5 (NKJV)
5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.
1 John 2:6 (NASB)
6 the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.
1 John 2:7 (CJB)
7 Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command. On the contrary, it is an old command, which you have had from the beginning; the old command is the message which you have heard before.
1 John 2:8 (AMP)
8 Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is true (is realized) in Him and in you, because the darkness (moral blindness) is clearing away and the true Light (the revelation of God in Christ) is already shining.
1 John 2:9 (NIV)
9 Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness.
1 John 2:10 (NASB)
10 The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
1 John 2:11 (NASB)
11 But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
1 John 2:12 (NASB)
12 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name’s sake.
1 John 2:13 (NASB)
13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.
1 John 2:14 (NASB)
14 I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
1 John 2:15 (NIV)
15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:16 (NIV)
16 For everything in the world–the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does–comes not from the Father but from the world.
1 John 2:17 (NASB)
17 The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.
1 John 2:18 (NASB)
18 Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that Antichrist is coming, even now many Antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.
1 John 2:19 (NIV)
19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
1 John 2:20 (NKJV)
20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.
1 John 2:21 (NIV)
21 I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth.
1 John 2:22 (NIV)
22 Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist–he denies the Father and the Son.
1 John 2:23 (NKJV)
23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
1 John 2:24 (NIV)
24 See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
1 John 2:25 (NASB)
25 This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life.
1 John 2:26 (AMP)
26 I write this to you with reference to those who would deceive you [seduce and lead you astray].
1 John 2:27 (NLT2)
27 But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, so you don’t need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you everything you need to know, and what he teaches is true—it is not a lie. So just as he has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ.
1 John 2:28 (NIV)
28 And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming.
1 John 2:29 (NASB)
29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him.
1 John Chapter 3
1 John 3:1 (NKJV)
1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
1 John 3:2 (CJB)
2 Dear friends, we are God’s children now; and it has not yet been made clear what we will become. We do know that when he appears, we will be like him; because we will see him as he really is.
1 John 3:3 (CJB)
3 And everyone who has this hope in him continues purifying himself, since God is pure.
1 John 3:4 (NIV)
4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
1 John 3:5 (NASB)
5 You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.
1 John 3:6 (NIV)
6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
1 John 3:7 (NIV)
7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.
1 John 3:8 (NKJV)
8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3:9 (NIV)
9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
1 John 3:10 (NKJV)
10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.
1 John 3:11 (NASB)
11 For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
1 John 3:12 (NLT2)-M
12 We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and (murdered) his brother. And why did he murder him? Because Cain had been doing what was evil, and his brother had been doing what was righteous.
1 John 3:13 (NASB)
13 Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you.
1 John 3:14 (NKJV)
14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.
1 John 3:15 (NASB)
15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
1 John 3:16 (NASB)
16 We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 3:17 (NASB)
17 But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?
1 John 3:18 (NASB)
18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
1 John 3:19 (NASB)
19 We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before Him
1 John 3:20 (NKJV)
20 For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
1 John 3:21 (NASB)
21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;
1 John 3:22 (NASB)
22 and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.
1 John 3:23 (NASB)
23 This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us.
1 John 3:24 (NIV)
24 Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
1 John Chapter 4
1 John 4:1 (NASB)
1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 4:2 (CJB)
2 Here is how you recognize the Spirit of God: every spirit which acknowledges that Yeshua the Messiah came as a human being is from God,
1 John 4:3 (NASB)
3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.
1 John 4:4 (NASB)
4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:5 (NIV)
5 They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.
1 John 4:6 (NASB)
6 We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
1 John 4:7 (NASB)
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:8 (NASB)
8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:9 (NASB)
9 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
1 John 4:10 (NASB)
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:11 (NASB)
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:12 (NASB)
12 No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:13 (NASB)
13 By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
1 John 4:14 (NASB)
14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
1 John 4:15 (NASB)
15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
1 John 4:16 (NASB)
16 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
1 John 4:17 (NASB)
17 By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.
1 John 4:18 (NKJV)
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
1 John 4:19 (NKJV)
19 We love Him because He first loved us.
1 John 4:20 (NKJV)
20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
1 John 4:21 (NASB)
21 And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.
1 John Chapter 5
1 John 5:1 (CJB)
1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has God as his father, and everyone who loves a father loves his offspring too.
1 John 5:2 (CJB)
2 Here is how we know that we love God’s children: when we love God, we also do what he commands.
1 John 5:3 (CJB)
3 For loving God means obeying his commands. Moreover, his commands are not burdensome,
1 John 5:4 (NIV)
4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
1 John 5:5 (NASB)
5 Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
1 John 5:6 (AMP)
6 This is He Who came by (with) water and blood [His baptism and His death], Jesus Christ (the Messiah)—not by (in) the water only, but by (in) the water and the blood. And it is the [Holy] Spirit Who bears witness, because the [Holy] Spirit is the Truth.
1 John 5:7 (NKJV)
7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.
1 John 5:8 (NKJV)
8 And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one.
1 John 5:9 (NASB)
9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for the testimony of God is this, that He has testified concerning His Son.
1 John 5:10 (NASB)
10 The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son.
1 John 5:11 (NASB)
11 And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
1 John 5:12 (NASB)
12 He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
1 John 5:13 (NIV)
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
1 John 5:14 (NIV)
14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
1 John 5:15 (NASB)
15 And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.
1 John 5:16 (NASB)
16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask and God will for him give life to those who commit sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death; I do not say that he should make request for this.
1 John 5:17 (NASB)
17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.
1 John 5:18 (CJB)
18 We know that everyone who has God as his Father does not go on sinning; on the contrary, the Son born of God protects him, and the Evil One does not touch him.
1 John 5:19 (NIV)
19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
1 John 5:20 (NIV)
20 We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true–even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
1 John 5:21 (NIV)
21 Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.