1 John 1:7

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 1:5-10

5-10 A message from the Lord Jesus, the Word of life, the eternal Word, we should all gladly receive. The great God should be represented to this dark world, as pure and perfect light. As this is the nature of God, his doctrines and precepts must be such. And as his perfect happiness cannot be separated from his perfect holiness, so our happiness will be in proportion to our being made holy. To walk in darkness, is to live and act against religion. God holds no heavenly fellowship or... read more

Frank Binford Hole

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 1:6-7

2. First Inference: The True Fellowship.1 John 1:6-76If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness,12 we lie, and do not the truth: 7But if we walk in the light, as he13 is in the light, we have fellowship one with another,14 and the blood of Jesus15 Christ his Son cleanseth16 us from all sin.17 18EXEGETICAL AND CRITICALThe sequence is clear: the Apostle concludes from the Being of God the nature of their life who are and live in fellowship with God. He postulates that... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - 1 John 1:7

1 John WALKING IN THE LIGHT 1Jn_1:7 . John was the Apostle of love, but he was also a ‘son of thunder.’ His intense moral earnestness and his very love made him hate evil, and sternly condemn it; and his words flash and roll as no other words in Scripture, except the words of the Lord of love. In the immediate context he has been laying down what is to him the very heart of his message, that ‘God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all.’ There are spots in the sun, great tracts of... 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

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 1:7

HOLINESS AND THE ATONEMENT‘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.’ 1 John 1:7 There is a widespread desire after holiness amongst those who love the Lord. It is well, therefore, that our attention should be carefully directed to this great subject. I. What do we mean by holiness?—It is a very sacred thing, and one better known by experience than definition; but some things seem... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 1:7

‘But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.’ Here is the other side of the matter. If we do come to God. If we do walk in His light, responding to His word and to His commandments. If we do open up our lives honestly so that He can reveal to us our sin and deal with it. If we do walk with Him Who gives us the light of true life which shines continually within us. Then we are coming to God as... read more

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