JB
1 John · read by John W. Bramhall
70 verses, in order. Only the verses John 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 KJV · Studies in 1 John 02 Holiness-Fellowship
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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 · Studies in 1 John 05 Practical Righteousness
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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 KJV · Studies in 1 John 02 Holiness-Fellowship
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We write these things so that our joy may be complete.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 02 Holiness-Fellowship
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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 · Studies in 1 John 02 Holiness-Fellowship
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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 KJV · Studies in 1 John 02 Holiness-Fellowship
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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 · Studies in 1 John 02 Holiness-Fellowship
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If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.Read from NKJV · Studies in 1 John 02 Holiness-Fellowship
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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 · Studies in 1 John 02 Holiness-Fellowship
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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 · Studies in 1 John 02 Holiness-Fellowship
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 · Studies in Zechariah 03 Zechariah 3:
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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 · Studies in 1 John 03 2 Evidences-Fellowship
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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 · Studies in 1 John 03 2 Evidences-Fellowship
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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 · Studies in 1 John 03 2 Evidences-Fellowship
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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 · Studies in 1 John 03 2 Evidences-Fellowship
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Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 03 2 Evidences-Fellowship
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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 · Studies in 1 John 03 2 Evidences-Fellowship
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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 · Studies in 1 John 03 2 Evidences-Fellowship
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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 · Studies in 1 John 03 2 Evidences-Fellowship
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Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 03 2 Evidences-Fellowship
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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 · Studies in 1 John 03 2 Evidences-Fellowship
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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 · Studies in 1 John 04 Growth of His Children
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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 · Studies in 1 John 04 Growth of His Children
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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 · Studies in 1 John 08 Who Is My Brother ?
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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 · Studies in 1 John 08 Who Is My Brother ?
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Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 04 Growth of His Children
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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 KJV · Studies in 1 John 04 Growth of His Children
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You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 04 Growth of His Children
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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 KJV · Studies in 1 John 04 Growth of His Children
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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 KJV · Studies in 1 John 04 Growth of His Children
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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 KJV · Studies in 1 John 04 Growth of His Children
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And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 04 Growth of His Children
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I have written these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 04 Growth of His Children
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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 KJV · Studies in 1 John 04 Growth of His Children
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 · Studies in 1 John 05 Practical Righteousness
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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 · Studies in 1 John 05 Practical Righteousness
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And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 05 Practical Righteousness
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But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 05 Practical Righteousness
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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 · Studies in 1 John 05 Practical Righteousness
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Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 05 Practical Righteousness
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The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 05 Practical Righteousness
1 John 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 KJV · Studies in 1 John 06 Spirit of Truth and Error
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and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and which is already in the world at this time.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 06 Spirit of Truth and Error
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You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 06 Spirit of Truth and Error
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They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world's perspective, and the world listens to them.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 06 Spirit of Truth and Error
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We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 06 Spirit of Truth and Error
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Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 07 Evidences Brotherly 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 KJV · Studies in 1 John 05 Practical Righteousness
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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 · Studies in 1 John 07 Evidences Brotherly 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 · Studies in 1 John 07 Evidences Brotherly Love
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By this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 07 Evidences Brotherly Love
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If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 07 Evidences Brotherly Love
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And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 07 Evidences Brotherly Love
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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 · Studies in 1 John 07 Evidences Brotherly Love
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If anyone says, "I love God," but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 07 Evidences Brotherly Love
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 · Studies in 1 John 08 Who Is My Brother ?
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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 NKJV · Studies in 1 John 08 Who Is My Brother ?
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For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 08 Who Is My Brother ?
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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 · Studies in 1 John 08 Who Is My Brother ?
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Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 08 Who Is My Brother ?
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This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ—not by water alone, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies to this, because the Spirit is the truth.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 09 His Witness Tt World
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Even if we accept human testimony, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony that God has given about His Son.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 09 His Witness Tt World
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Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within him; whoever does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given about His Son.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 09 His Witness Tt World
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And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 09 His Witness Tt World
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Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 09 His Witness Tt World
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I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 09 His Witness Tt World
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And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.Read from NKJV · Studies in 1 John 09 His Witness Tt World
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And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 09 His Witness Tt World
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If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he should ask God, who will give life to those who commit this kind of sin. There is a sin that leads to death; I am not saying he should ask regarding that sin.Read from KJV · Studies in 1 John 09 His Witness Tt World