1 John 1:5

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - 1 John 1:1-99

1John 1 WE MUST NOT confound “from the beginning” with the words, “In the beginning,” with which the Gospel opens. There, the eternal existence and deity of the Word is stated, and we travel back to the beginning, and even beyond the beginning, of all things that can be said to have had a beginning. Here, we are concerned with the fact that all Christian truth begins with the revelation which reached us in Christ incarnate. That was the beginning of the true manifestation of God and of life... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - 1 John 1:5-7

Walking in the light, cleansed by Christ's blood: v. 5. This, then, is the message which we have heard of Him and declare unto you, that God is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all. v. 6. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth; v. 7. but if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin. The apostle now launches forth in his letter... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - 1 John 1:5

II. PRINCIPAL PART THE FIRST1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28IF YE WALK IN THE LIGHT (1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:2)—OBEDIENT TO HIS LAW IN GENERAL (1 John 2:2-6), AND TO THE COMMANDMENT OF BROTHERLY LOVE IN PARTICULAR (1 John 2:7-14), NOT MISLED BY THE LUSTS (1 John 2:15-17) AND THE LIES OF THE WORLD (1 John 2:18-23) YE SHALL ABIDE BEFORE CHRIST1. Leading thought: God is Light5This then Isaiah 9:0 the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you,10 that God is light, and in him is no darkness11... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 1 John 1:1-10

Fellowship in the Light 1 John 1:1-10 As the aged Apostle began to write he was living over again his first happy experiences with the Savior. He heard the voice, saw the person, touched the very body in which Deity tabernacled. It was too great a bliss to be enjoyed alone, and John tells us that we may enter into the same close partnership with the Father and the Son. But no impurity or insincerity is permissible to those who enter that fellowship. Our one aim should be to maintain such a... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 1 John 1:1-10

This is possibly the last apostolic message to the whole Church. It is complementary to the Gospel of John. Its subject is fellowship with God, into which believers are introduced through their union with Christ. The whole fact of the mission of our Lord is declared to be a manifestation of eternal life. Concerning this John wrote, 'We have heard," "we have seen," "we beheld," "our hands handled." The purpose of the manifestation was to bring men into fellowship with God. Through the... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - 1 John 1:2-10

The Christ Chapter 1 John 1:2-10 ; 1 John 2:1-2 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There is a striking similarity between the opening verses of the first chapter of the Gospel of John and the first chapter of the First Epistle of John. In the Gospel we read, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." It goes on to say that the Word was made manifest. The Epistle says, "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 1:5

God Revealed As Light Which By Its Nature Constantly Reveals Man’s Sinfulness and Calls Him To Repentance (1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:2 ). ‘And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.’ If you asked most people what the message of Jesus, the Word of Life, was, they would probably reply, ‘it is that God is love’. But John here tells us differently. He points out that the message of Jesus is that ‘God is light’, a... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 1:5-10

1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:2 . Fellowship with God Requires a Right View of Sin. 1 John 1:5-2 Samuel : . Spiritual fellowship depends on moral affinity. Hence since Jesus has declared the holy perfection of God, we cannot truthfully claim fellowship with Him, and at the same time be habitually committing sin. Only as we Christians constantly aim to be like God have we fellowship with Him and with one another, our sinfulness being cleansed by the blood of Christ. To deny that we are sinful or... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 John 1:5

It being the professed scope and design of his writing, to draw men to a final participation and communion with God in his own blessedness, he reckons nothing more necessary to it, than to settle in their minds a right notion of God. Which, that it might be the more regarded, he introduces with a solemn preface; This then is the message, & c., (though the word also signifies promise, it here more fitly bears this rendering), to notify: 1. That this which follows was not an imagination of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 John 1:5-10

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES1 John 1:5.—The first part of the epistle begins here. It is directed against the Gnostic teaching, that to a man of enlightenment all conduct is morally indifferent. In every age there have been those who claimed an interest in Christ while living in sin. St. John does not address sinners generally, but distinctly those who made Christian profession, but fell short of it through misapprehensions and self-delusions. God is light.—This is not merely the absolute fact... read more

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