1 John 1:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

if we may say -- `we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth;

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  • 1 John 4:20 : 20 if any one may say -- `I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love?
  • 1 John 1:10 : 10 if we may say -- `we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.
  • 1 John 2:4 : 4 he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;
  • John 3:19-21 : 19 `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil; 20 for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected; 21 but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'
  • John 8:12 : 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'
  • Ps 5:4-6 : 4 For not a God desiring wickedness `art' Thou, Evil inhabiteth Thee not. 5 The boastful station not themselves before Thine eyes: Thou hast hated all working iniquity. 6 Thou destroyest those speaking lies, A man of blood and deceit Jehovah doth abominate.
  • Prov 2:13 : 13 Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,
  • Prov 4:18-19 : 18 And the path of the righteous `is' as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established, 19 The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
  • John 12:35 : 35 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;
  • 2 Cor 6:14-16 : 14 Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking `is there' to righteousness and lawlessness? 15 and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever? 16 and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- `I will dwell in them, and will walk among `them', and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,
  • Jas 2:14 : 14 What `is' the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?
  • Jas 2:16 : 16 and any one of you may say to them, `Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what `is' the profit?
  • Jas 2:18 : 18 But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith:
  • Rev 3:17-18 : 17 because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked, 18 I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.
  • 1 John 2:9-9 : 9 he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now; 10 he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not; 11 and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.
  • 1 John 1:3 : 3 that which we have seen and heard declare we to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship `is' with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ;
  • 1 John 1:8 : 8 if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;
  • 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,
  • John 12:46 : 46 I a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me -- in the darkness may not remain;
  • Matt 7:22 : 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, lord, have we not in thy name prophesied? and in thy name cast out demons? and in thy name done many mighty things?
  • Ps 82:5 : 5 They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of earth.
  • Ps 94:20 : 20 Is a throne of mischief joined `with' Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?
  • John 8:44-45 : 44 `Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father. 45 `And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.
  • John 11:10 : 10 and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'

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    7 and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

    8 if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

    9 if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

    10 if we may say -- `we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

  • 1 John 1:1-5
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    1 That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life --

    2 and the Life was manifested, and we have seen, and do testify, and declare to you the Life, the age-during, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us --

    3 that which we have seen and heard declare we to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship `is' with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ;

    4 and these things we write to you, that your joy may be full.

    5 And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;

  • 1 John 2:3-6
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    3 and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;

    4 he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

    5 and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.

    6 He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.

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    8 again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine;

    9 he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;

    10 he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not;

    11 and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.

  • 10 and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'

  • John 3:19-21
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    19 `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

    20 for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

    21 but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'

  • 8 for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,

  • 5 and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.

  • 35 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;

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    6 and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,

    7 because many leading astray did enter into the world, who are not confessing Jesus Christ coming in flesh; this one is he who is leading astray, and the antichrist.

  • 11 and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

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    19 we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;

    20 and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!

  • 9 every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son;

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    6 every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.

    7 Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,

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    18 My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

    19 and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,

  • 21 I did not write to you because ye have not known the truth, but because ye have known it, and because no lie is of the truth.

  • 5 all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness,

  • 23 but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that `is' in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great!

  • 6 we -- of God we are; he who is knowing God doth hear us; he who is not of God, doth not hear us; from this we know the spirit of the truth, and the spirit of the error.

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    35 take heed, then, lest the light that `is' in thee be darkness;

    36 if then thy whole body is lightened, not having any part darkened, the whole shall be lightened, as when the lamp by the brightness may give thee light.'

  • 1 My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

  • 2 because of the truth that is remaining in us, and with us shall be to the age,

  • 14 we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

  • 8 we, then, ought to receive such, that fellow-workers we may become to the truth.

  • 14 Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking `is there' to righteousness and lawlessness?

  • 10 In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

  • 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

  • 9 He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;

  • 21 Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,

  • 12 God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;