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1 John · read by J. Glyn Owen
67 verses, in order. Only the verses J. read aloud are shown.
1 John 1
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That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life.Read from NKJV · Behold My Servant: Who Has Believed Our Report?
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And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.Read from KJV · (1 John #1) Foundational Facts
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We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.Read from ESV · (1 John #15) Anti-Christs Exposed
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And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.Read from KJV · (1 John #3) This Is the Message
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If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.Read from ESV · (1 John #20) Hearts at Rest in His Presence
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But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.Read from KJV · (1 John #5) Walking in the Light - Part I
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If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.Read from ESV · (1 John #5) Walking in the Light - Part I
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If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.Read from ESV · (1 John #18) in Prospect and Restrospect
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If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.Read from NASB1995 · (1 John #8) an Advocate With God
1 John 2
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My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.Read from KJV · (1 John #8) an Advocate With God
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He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.Read from ESV · (1 John #7) Walking in the Light - Part Iii
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By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.Read from KJV · (1 John #10) Ring of Reality
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If anyone says, "I know Him," but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.Read from KJV · (1 John #10) Ring of Reality
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But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:Read from KJV · (1 John #10) Ring of Reality
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Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.Read from KJV · (1 John #10) Ring of Reality
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Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.Read from KJV · (1 John #11) on Light and Love
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Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.Read from KJV · (1 John #11) on Light and Love
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If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.Read from KJV · (1 John #11) on Light and Love
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Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.Read from KJV · (1 John #11) on Light and Love
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But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.Read from KJV · (1 John #11) on Light and Love
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I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through His name.Read from KJV · (1 John #12) Correcting Confusion
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I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.Read from KJV · (1 John #12) Correcting Confusion
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I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.Read from KJV · (1 John #12) Correcting Confusion
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Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.Read from KJV · (1 John #13) the Exclusiveness of True Love
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For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.Read from KJV · (1 John #13) the Exclusiveness of True Love
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They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.Read from ESV · (1 John #15) Anti-Christs Exposed
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I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth.Read from ESV · (1 John #16) Undergirding the Faith of the God-Fearing
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Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.Read from ESV · (1 John #15) Anti-Christs Exposed
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As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father.Read from ESV · (1 John #16) Undergirding the Faith of the God-Fearing
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And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.Read from ESV · (1 John #16) Undergirding the Faith of the God-Fearing
1 John 3
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Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.Read from KJV · (1 John #17) New Birth: New Behaviour
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Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.Read from KJV · (1 John #17) New Birth: New Behaviour
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And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.Read from KJV · (1 John #17) New Birth: New Behaviour
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Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.Read from KJV · (1 John #18) in Prospect and Restrospect
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But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.Read from KJV · (1 John #18) in Prospect and Restrospect
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No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.Read from KJV · (1 John #18) in Prospect and Restrospect
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This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.Read from ESV · (1 John #19) Cain-Like or Christ-Like
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Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.Read from ESV · (1 John #19) Cain-Like or Christ-Like
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If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?Read from ESV · (1 John #19) Cain-Like or Christ-Like
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And by this we will know that we belong to the truth, and will assure our hearts in His presence:Read from ESV · (1 John #20) Hearts at Rest in His Presence
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Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.Read from KJV · (1 John #21) New Horizons
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Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God,Read from KJV · (1 John #21) New Horizons
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and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.Read from KJV · (1 John #21) New Horizons
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And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.Read from NKJV · (1 John #21) New Horizons
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Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.Read from KJV · (1 John #21) New Horizons
1 John 4
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Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.Read from ESV · (1 John #22) Testing 1,2,3,4
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By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,Read from NKJV · (1 John #22) Testing 1,2,3,4
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Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.Read from KJV · (1 John #23) Why Love?
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Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.Read from NKJV · (1 John #23) Why Love?
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This is how God's love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.Read from ESV · (1 John #24) God's Love Expressed
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And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.Read from KJV · (1 John #24) God's Love Expressed
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Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.Read from KJV · (1 John #23) Why Love?
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No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.Read from KJV · (1 John #23) Why Love?
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In this way, love has been perfected among us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment; for in this world we are just like Him.Read from KJV · (1 John #26) the Love That Casts Out Fear
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There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.Read from KJV · (1 John #27) Portrait of a Christian
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And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.Read from KJV · (1 John #29) Praying the Dead to Life
1 John 5
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Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.Read from KJV · (1 John #29) Praying the Dead to Life
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By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.Read from ESV · (1 John #29) Praying the Dead to Life
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For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,Read from ESV · (1 John #29) Praying the Dead to Life
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because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.Read from KJV · (1 John #29) Praying the Dead to Life
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Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.Read from KJV · (1 John #29) Praying the Dead to Life
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And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.Read from ESV · (1 John #2) Christian Fellowship and Its Fruit
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We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.Read from KJV · (1 John #30) Stock of Certainties
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We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.Read from KJV · (1 John #30) Stock of Certainties
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And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.Read from KJV · (1 John #30) Stock of Certainties