1 John 1:6 Parallel Translations

If we say, "We have a relationship with God" and yet live in the dark, we're lying. We aren't being truthful.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

ASV:

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

BBE:

If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:

DBY:

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practise the truth.

ERV:

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

WEY:

If, while we are living in darkness, we profess to have fellowship with Him, we speak falsely and are not adhering to the truth.

WBS:

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

WEB:

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.

YLT:

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

1 John 1:6 Cross References

XREF:

John 3:21 "But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God."

John 8:12 Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, "I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life."

John 8:55 and you have not come to know Him, but I know Him; and if I say that I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know Him and keep His word.

1 John 2:4 The one who says, "I have come to know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

1 John 2:11 But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

1 John 4:20 If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

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.

WES:

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.

MHC:

1:5-10 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 intercourse with unholy souls. There is no truth in their profession; their practice shows its folly and falsehood. The eternal Life, the eternal Son, put on flesh and blood, and died to wash us from our sins in his own blood, and procures for us the sacred influences by which sin is to be subdued more and more, till it is quite done away. While the necessity of a holy walk is insisted upon, as the effect and evidence of the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus, the opposite error of self-righteous pride is guarded against with equal care. All who walk near to God, in holiness and righteousness, are sensible that their best days and duties are mixed with sin. God has given testimony to the sinfulness of the world, by providing a sufficient, effectual Sacrifice for sin, needed in all ages; and the sinfulness of believers themselves is shown, by requiring them continually to confess their sins, and to apply by faith to the blood of that Sacrifice. Let us plead guilty before God, be humble, and willing to know the worst of our case. Let us honestly confess all our sins in their full extent, relying wholly on his mercy and truth through the righteousness of Christ, for a free and full forgiveness, and our deliverance from the power and practice of sin.

CONC:

FALSE Adhering Claim Dark Darkness Falsely Fellowship Joined Lie Practice Practise Profess Speak Truth Untrue Walk Walking Yet

Acts Adhering Claim Dark Darkness False. Falsely Fellowship Joined Lie Practice Practise Profess Speak Truth Walk Walking Words

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