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.
(1 John 1:3, Good News Bible)
God is light, and there is no darkness at all in him.
(1 John 1:5, Good News Bible)
If we confess our sins to God, he can always be trusted to forgive us and take our sins away.
(1 John 1:9, Contemporary English Version)
If we confess our sins to God, we can trust him, for he does what is right - he will forgive us our sins and make us clean from all our wrongdoing.
(1 John 1:9, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
If we say that we have not sinned, we make a liar out of God.
(1 John 1:10, Good News Bible)
Christ is the sacrifice that takes away our sins and the sins of all the world’s people.
(1 John 2:2, Contemporary English Version)
Christ himself is the means by which our sins are forgiven, and not our sins only, but also the sins of all men.
(1 John 2:2, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
We truly love God only when we obey him as we should.
(1 John 2:5, Contemporary English Version)
Whoever says that he remains in union with God should live just as Jesus Christ did.
(1 John 2:6)
The darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
(1 John 2:8, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures)
The darkness is passing away, and the real light is already shining.
(1 John 2:8, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. Whoever loves his brother lives in the light.
(1 John 2:9-10)
If we love others, we are in the light, and we don’t cause problems for them. If we hate others, we are living and walking in the dark.
(1 John 2:10-11, Contemporary English Version)
Do not love the world or anything that belongs to the world.
(1 John 2:15, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
The world and everything in it that people desire is passing away; but he who does what God wants lives for ever.
(1 John 2:17, Good News Bible)
No lie ever comes from the truth.
(1 John 2:21, Good News Bible)
God is always good and does only right.
(1 John 2:29, Living Bible)
Everyone who does what is right is God’s child.
(1 John 2:29, Good News Bible)
Everyone who does right is a child of God.
(1 John 2:29, Contemporary English Version)
Sin is lawlessness.
(1 John 3:4)
Whoever sins is guilty of breaking God’s law, because sin is a breaking of the law.
(1 John 3:4, Good News Bible)
Everyone who sins breaks God’s law, because sin is the same as breaking God’s law.
(1 John 3:4, Contemporary English Version)
Anyone who does right is good.
(1 John 3:7, Contemporary English Version)
Whoever is a child of God does not continue to sin, because God’s very nature is in him.
(1 John 3:9, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Those who do not do what is right or do not love others are not God’s children.
(1 John 3:10, Good News Bible)
You can tell God’s children from the devil’s children, because those who belong to the devil refuse to do right or to love each other.
(1 John 3:10, Contemporary English Version)
We must love one another.
(1 John 3:11, Good News Bible)
Those who do not love are still under the power of death.
(1 John 3:15, Good News Bible)
Whoever hates his brother is a murderer.
(1 John 3:15, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for others!
(1 John 3:16, Good News Bible)
Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.
(1 John 3:18)
You show love for others by truly helping them, and not merely by talking about it.
(1 John 3:18, Contemporary English Version)
If our conscience does not condemn us, we have courage in God’s presence.
(1 John 3:21, Good News Bible)
This is what he commands: that we believe in the name of his son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as Christ commanded us. Whoever obeys God’s commands lives in God and God lives in him. And this is how we know that God lives in us: we know it because of the Sprit he has given us.
(1 John 3:23-24, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Whoever obeys’ God’s commands lives in union with God and God lives in union with him.
(1 John 3:24, Good News Bible)
The Spirit who is in you is more powerful than the spirit in those who belong to the world.
(1 John 4:4, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
We are children of God.
(1 John 4:6)
We belong to God, and everyone who knows God will listen to us.
(1 John 4:6, Contemporary English Version)
Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God.
(1 John 4:7, Good News Bible)
Love comes from God, and when we love each other, it shows that we have been given new life.
(1 John 4:7, Contemporary English Version)
Let us love one another, for love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
(1 John 4:7-8, Good News Bible)
God is love; if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made perfect within us.
(1 John 4:8 / 4:12, Good News Bible)
No one has ever seen God.
(1 John 4:12)
No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us.
(1 John 4:12, Contemporary English Version)
God is Love.
(1 John 4:16 / 4:12, Good News Bible)
There is no fear in love; perfect love drives out all fear.
(1 John 4:18)
We love Him, because He first loved us.
(1 John 4:19)
We love because God first loved us.
(1 John 4:19, Good News Bible)
We love because God loved us first.
(1 John 4:19, Contemporary English Version)
Whoever loves God must love his brother also.
(1 John 4:21, Good News Bible))
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is a child of God.
(1 John 5:1, Good News Bible)
Our love for God means that we obey his commands.
(1 John 5:3, Good News Bible)
We win the victory over the world by means of our faith.
(1 John 5:4, Good News Bible)
Who can defeat the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
(1 John 5:5, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
God has given us eternal life, and this life has its source in his Son.
(1 John 5:11, Good News Bible)
All wrongdoing is sin.
(1 John 5:17, Good News Bible)
Everything that is wrong is sin.
(1 John 5:11, Contemporary English Version)
The whole world is under the rule of the Evil One.
(1 John 5:19, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts.
(1 John 5:21, Living Bible)
Keep yourselves safe from false gods!
(1 John 5:21, Good News Bible)
Keep yourselves away from false gods!
(1 John 5:21, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)