1 JohnChapter 1

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¹This is what was there from the beginning. We have heard it. We have seen it with our own eyes. We have looked at it and touched it with our own hands. This is the Word of life. ²This life was shown to us. We have seen it, and we tell about it. We are telling you about the eternal life that was with the Father. It was shown to us. ³We tell you what we have seen and heard. We want you to share life with us too. And we share life with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.a ⁴We write these things so that our joy may be full. ⁵Here is the message we heard from him, and we tell it to you: God is light. There is no darkness in him at all. ⁶We may say we share life with him. But if we still walk in the dark, we are lying. We are not living out the truth. ⁷But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we share life with one another. And the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin. ⁸If we say we have no sin, we fool ourselves. The truth is not in us. ⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and fair. He will forgive our sins. He will make us clean from all that is wrong. ¹⁰If we say we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar. His word is not in us.