1 John 1:3

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What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us(and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).

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  • 1 John 1:1 : 1 ¶ The Prologue to the Letter This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched(concerning the word of life–
  • 1 Cor 1:9 : 9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Phil 2:1 : 1 Christian Unity and Christ’s Humility Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort provided by love, any fellowship in the Spirit, any affection or mercy,
  • John 17:3 : 3 Now this is eternal life– that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
  • John 17:21 : 21 that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”
  • Phil 3:10 : 10 My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death,
  • 1 John 1:7 : 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 2:23-24 : 23 Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also. 24 As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
  • 1 John 5:10-11 : 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 testified concerning his Son.) 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
  • 1 John 1:5 : 5 God Is Light, So We Must Walk in the Light Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.
  • Col 1:13 : 13 He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,
  • 1 Thess 1:10 : 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.
  • 1 Tim 6:2 : 2 But those who have believing masters must not show them less respect because they are brothers. Instead they are to serve all the more, because those who benefit from their service are believers and dearly loved. Summary of Timothy’s DutiesTeach them and exhort them about these things.
  • Heb 2:12 : 12 saying,“I will proclaim your name to my brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you.”
  • Heb 3:1 : 1 Jesus and Moses Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess,
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 Leading and Living in God’s Flock So as your fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings and as one who shares in the glory that will be revealed, I urge the elders among you:
  • Acts 13:32 : 32 And we proclaim to you the good news about the promise to our ancestors,
  • Acts 13:41 : 41 ‘Look, you scoffers; be amazed and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work you would never believe, even if someone tells you.’”
  • Acts 20:27 : 27 For I did not hold back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.
  • Rom 15:27 : 27 For they were pleased to do this, and indeed they are indebted to the Jerusalem saints. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are obligated also to minister to them in material things.
  • 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
  • 1 Cor 15:1 : 1 Christ’s Resurrection Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand,
  • Eph 3:6 : 6 namely, that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.
  • Phil 1:7 : 7 For it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you became partners in God’s grace together with me.
  • John 17:25 : 25 Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.
  • Acts 2:42 : 42 The Fellowship of the Early Believers They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
  • John 17:11 : 11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.
  • Ps 2:7 : 7 The king says,“I will announce the LORD’s decree. He said to me:‘You are my son! This very day I have become your father!
  • Ps 22:22 : 22 I will declare your name to my countrymen! In the middle of the assembly I will praise you!
  • Isa 66:19 : 19 I will perform a mighty act among them and then send some of those who remain to the nations– to Tarshish, Pul, Lud(known for its archers), Tubal, Javan, and to the distant coastlands that have not heard about me or seen my splendor. They will tell the nations of my splendor.
  • John 14:20-23 : 20 You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you. 21 The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.” 22 “Lord,” Judas(not Judas Iscariot) said,“what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” 23 Jesus replied,“If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.

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    6If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

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    3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

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