1 John 1:5
Good News Translation
Now the message that we have heard from his Son and announce is this: God is light, and there is no darkness at all in him.

New Revised Standard Version
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus told us God is light and doesn't have any darkness in him. Now we are telling you.

New American Bible
Now this is the message that we have heard from him and proclaim to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And this is the declaration which we have heard from him and declare unto you: That God is light and in him there is no darkness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And this is the declaration which we have heard from him and declare unto you: That God is light and in him there is no darkness.

the message.

1 John 3:11 For this is the declaration which you have heard from the beginning, that you should love one another.

1 Corinthians 11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread,

that God.

Psalm 27:1 The psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalm 36:9 For with thee is the fountain of life; and in thy light we shall see light.

Psalm 84:11 For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory.

Isaiah 60:19 Thou shalt no more have the sun for thy light by day, neither shall the brightness of the moon enlighten thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee for an everlasting light, and thy God for thy glory.

John 1:4,9 In him was life: and the life was the light of men. . . .

John 8:12 Again therefore, Jesus spoke to: them, saying: I am the light of the world. He that followeth me walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

John 9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

John 12:35,36 Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while, the light is among you. Walk whilst you have the light, and the darkness overtake you not. And he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither be goeth. . . .

1 Timothy 6:16 Who only hath immortality and inhabiteth light inaccessible: whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire everlasting. Amen.

James 1:17 Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration.

Revelation 21:23 And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it: and the Lamb is the lamp thereof.

Revelation 22:5 And night shall be no more. And they shall not need the light of the lamp, nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God shall enlighten then. And they shall reign for ever and ever.

Context
Walking in the Light
4And these things we write to you, that you may rejoice and your joy may be full. 5And this is the declaration which we have heard from him and declare unto you: That God is light and in him there is no darkness. 6If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth.…
Cross References
Psalm 139:12
But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light all the day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.

Isaiah 2:5
O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

Daniel 2:22
He revealeth deep and hidden things, and knoweth what is in darkness: and light is with him.

John 1:19
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to him, to ask him: Who art thou?

1 Timothy 6:16
Who only hath immortality and inhabiteth light inaccessible: whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire everlasting. Amen.

James 1:17
Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration.

1 John 3:11
For this is the declaration which you have heard from the beginning, that you should love one another.

1 John 1:4
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