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1 John 1:6
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If we say, “We have fellowship with him,” and yet we walk in darkness, we are lying and are not practicing the truth.
If we say that we haue felowship with him, and walke in darkenesse, we lie, and doe not the trueth.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;
So if we say we have fellowship with God, but we continue living in darkness, we are liars and do not follow the truth.
If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;
If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
If we say that we share in life with God and keep on living in the dark, we are lying and are not living by the truth.
If we claim to have fellowship with him while we are walking in the darkness, we are lying and not living out the truth.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practise the truth.
So if we say that we share in life with God, but we continue living in darkness, we are liars, who don't follow the truth.
If wee say that wee haue fellowship with him, and walke in darkenesse, we lie, and doe not truely:
If we say that we have fellowship with him and yet live in darkness, we lie, and do not follow the truth:
If, then, we say that we have fellowship with him, yet at the same time live in the darkness, we are lying both in our words and in our actions.
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and we walk in darkness, we lie and are not practicing the truth.
If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness [of sin], we lie and do not practice the truth;
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.
If we claim that we have fellowship with him but keep living in the darkness, we are lying and the truth is not in us.2 Corinthians 6:14; 1 John 2:4;">[xr]
And if we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and in the truth do not proceed;
And if we say that we have fellowship with him, and we walk in the darkness, we are liars, and walk not in the truth.
If we saye that we haue felowship with hym, and walke in darkenesse, we lye, and do not the trueth.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.
If we say we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth.
If, while we are living in darkness, we profess to have fellowship with Him, we speak falsely and are not adhering to the truth.
If we seien, that we han felawschip with hym, and we wandren in derknessis, we lien, and don not treuthe.
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't do the truth:
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.
If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth.
If we say we are joined together with Him but live in darkness, we are telling a lie. We are not living the truth.
If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true;
If we say - We have, fellowship, with him! and, in darkness, are walking, we are dealing falsely, and not doing the truth;
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth.
If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not live according to the truth;
yf we saye that we have fellishippe with him and yet walke in darknes we lye and do not the truth:
if we may say -- `we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth;
Yf we saye that we haue fellishippe with him, and yet walke in darknes, we lye, and do not the trueth.
if we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we lye, and do not act sincerely:
So then, if we say we ride in his crew, but we ride in darkness, then we are counterfeits in word and deed.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
If: 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10, 1 John 2:4, 1 John 4:20, Matthew 7:22, James 2:14, James 2:16, James 2:18, Revelation 3:17, Revelation 3:18
fellowship: 1 John 1:3, Psalms 5:4-6, Psalms 94:20, 2 Corinthians 6:14-16
walk: 1 John 2:9-11, Psalms 82:5, Proverbs 2:13, Proverbs 4:18, Proverbs 4:19, John 3:19, John 3:20, John 11:10, John 12:35, John 12:46
we lie: 1 John 1:10, 1 John 4:20, John 8:44, John 8:45, 1 Timothy 4:2
do not: John 3:21
Reciprocal: Ezekiel 36:27 - cause Zechariah 10:12 - walk John 19:34 - came 1 Thessalonians 2:12 - walk 1 John 2:6 - that saith 1 John 2:22 - Who 2 John 1:4 - walking
Cross-References
God spoke: "Sky! In the middle of the waters; separate water from water!" God made sky. He separated the water under sky from the water above sky. And there it was: he named sky the Heavens; It was evening, it was morning— Day Two.
God spoke: "Earth, green up! Grow all varieties of seed-bearing plants, Every sort of fruit-bearing tree." And there it was. Earth produced green seed-bearing plants, all varieties, And fruit-bearing trees of all sorts. God saw that it was good. It was evening, it was morning— Day Three.
God spoke: "Lights! Come out! Shine in Heaven's sky! Separate Day from Night. Mark seasons and days and years, Lights in Heaven's sky to give light to Earth." And there it was.
God spoke: "Swarm, Ocean, with fish and all sea life! Birds, fly through the sky over Earth!" God created the huge whales, all the swarm of life in the waters, And every kind and species of flying birds. God saw that it was good. God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Ocean! Birds, reproduce on Earth!" It was evening, it was morning— Day Five.
God spoke: "Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature So they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, And, yes, Earth itself, and every animal that moves on the face of Earth." God created human beings; he created them godlike, Reflecting God's nature. He created them male and female. God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth."
A David Psalm God's glory is on tour in the skies, God-craft on exhibit across the horizon. Madame Day holds classes every morning, Professor Night lectures each evening.
The skies were made by God 's command; he breathed the word and the stars popped out. He scooped Sea into his jug, put Ocean in his keg.
Hallelujah! Praise God in his holy house of worship, praise him under the open skies; Praise him for his acts of power, praise him for his magnificent greatness; Praise with a blast on the trumpet, praise by strumming soft strings; Praise him with castanets and dance, praise him with banjo and flute; Praise him with cymbals and a big bass drum, praise him with fiddles and mandolin. Let every living, breathing creature praise God ! Hallelujah!
When the clouds are full of water, it rains. When the wind blows down a tree, it lies where it falls. Don't sit there watching the wind. Do your own work. Don't stare at the clouds. Get on with your life.
But God is the real thing— the living God, the eternal King. When he's angry, Earth shakes. Yes, and the godless nations quake.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If we say that we have fellowship with him,.... The Alexandrian copy reads, "for if we say": that is, if any profess to be partakers of the divine nature, to be like unto God, and to have communion with him, to have the light of his countenance, and the discoveries of his love:
and walk in darkness; in the darkness of sin, ignorance, and unbelief, or are in a state of unregeneracy and blindness; whose understandings are darkened, and they know not God in Christ, nor have any true sight and sense of themselves, their sin and danger; and are ignorant of Christ and his righteousness, and the way of salvation by him; and are strangers to the Spirit of God, and the work of his grace; and are unacquainted with the truths of the Gospel; and not only so, but go on in darkness more and more; prefer it to the light, love it, and the works of it; have fellowship with them, and choose them; take pleasure in the ways of sin and wickedness, and continue, and walk on in them; if such persons pretend to fellowship with God, they are liars:
we lie; it cannot be, it is a contradiction, the thing is impossible and impracticable; what communion hath light with darkness? or what fellowship can the throne of iniquity, or those in whom sin reigns, have with God? for God is light, and were they partakers of him, or like unto him, or had communion with him, they would consequently be in the light, and not in darkness, and much less walk in it; wherefore they are liars,
and do not the truth: they do not say the truth, nor act according to it; they do not act uprightly or sincerely, but are hypocrites, and pretend to that which they have not; and if they did the truth, they would come to the light, and not walk in darkness; see John 3:21.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If we say that we have fellowship uith him - If we reckon ourselves among his friends, or, in other words, if we profess to be like him: for a profession of religion involves the idea of having fellowship with God, (compare the notes at 1 John 1:3), and he who professes that should be like him.
And walk in darkness - Live in sin and error. To “walk in darkness” now commonly denotes to be in doubt about our religious state, in contradistinction from living in the enjoyment of religion. That is not, however, probably the whole idea here. The leading thought is, that if we live in sin, it is a proof that our profession of religion is false. Desirable as it is to have the comforts of religion, yet it is not always true that they who do not are not true Christians, nor is it true by any means that they intend to deceive the world.
We lie - We are false professors; we are deceived if we think that we can have fellowship with God, and yet live in the practice of sin. As God is pure, so must we be, if we would be his friends. This does not mean necessarily that they meant to deceive, but that there was an irreconcilable contradiction between a life of sin and fellowship with God.
And do not the truth - Do not act truly. The profession is a false one. Compare the notes at John 3:22. To do the truth is to act in accordance with truth; and the expression here means that such an one could not be a Christian. And yet how many there are who are living in known sin who profess to be Christians! How many whose minds are dark on the whole subject of religion, who have never known anything of the real peace and joy which it imparts, who nevertheless entertain the belief that they are the friends of God, and are going to heaven! They trust in a name, in forms, in conformity to external rites, and have never known anything of the internal peace and purity which religion imparts, and in fact have never had any true fellowship with that God who is light, and in whom there is no darkness at all. Religion is light; religion is peace, purity, joy; and though there are eases where for a time a true Christian may be left to darkness, and have no spiritual joy, and be in doubt about his salvation, yet still it is a great truth, that unless we know by personal experience what it is to walk habitually in the light, to have the comforts of religion, and to experience in our own souls the influences which make the heart pure, and which bring us into conformity to the God who is light, we can have no true religion. All else is but a name, which will not avail us on the final day.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 6. If we say that we have fellowship — Having fellowship, κοινωνια, communion, with God, necessarily implies a partaking of the Divine nature. Now if a man profess to have such communion, and walk in darkness-live an irreligious and sinful life, he lies, in the profession which he makes, and does not the truth-does not walk according to the directions of the Gospel, on the grace of which he holds his relation to God, and his communion with him.
The Gnostics, against whose errors it is supposed this epistle was written, were great pretenders to knowledge, to the highest degrees of the Divine illumination, and the nearest communion with the fountain of holiness, while their manners were excessively corrupt.
