1 John 1:6
“If we say that we haue felowship with him, and walke in darkenesse, we lie, and doe not the trueth.”
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1 John 1:6 Context
4And these things write we vnto you, that your ioy may be full. 5This then is the message which we haue heard of him, and declare vnto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkenesse at all. 6If we say that we haue felowship with him, and walke in darkenesse, we lie, and doe not the trueth. 7But if wee walke in the light, as he is in the light, wee haue fellowship one with another, and the blood of Iesus Christ his Sonne clenseth vs from all sinne. 8If we say that we haue no sinne, we deceiue our selues, and the trueth is not in vs.
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Other Translations for 1 John 1:6
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
- King James Version
If we say that we have fellowship with Him and {yet} walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;
- New American Standard Version (1995)
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
- American Standard Version (1901)
If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:
- Basic English Bible
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practise the truth.
- Darby Bible
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
- Webster's Bible
If, while we are living in darkness, we profess to have fellowship with Him, we speak falsely and are not adhering to the truth.
- Weymouth Bible
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.
- World English Bible
If we seien, that we han felawschip with hym, and we wandren in derknessis, we lien, and don not treuthe.
- Wycliffe Bible
if we may say -- `we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth;
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for 1 John 1:6
1:6 If we say - Either with our tongue, or in our heart, if we endeavour to persuade either ourselves or others. We have fellowship with him, while we walk, either inwardly or outwardly, in darkness - In sin of any kind. We do not the truth - Our actions prove, that the truth is not in us.
People's Bible Notes for 1 John 1:6
1Jo 1:6 If we . . . walk in darkness. To claim a fellowship with him who is Light and to walk in the darkness of error, of ignorance, and of sinfulness are utterly inconsistent. Do not the truth. He who obeys not the truth walks in darkness.