Dual Panel1IT was there from the beginning; we have heard it; we have seen it with our own eyes; we looked upon it, and felt it with our own hands: our theme is the Word which gives life.
2This life was made visible; we have seen it and bear our testimony; we declare to you the eternal life which was with the Father and was made visible to us.
3It is this which we have seen and heard that we declare to you also, in order that you may share with us in a common life, that life which we share with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ.
4We are writing this in order that our joy may be complete.
Fellowship, obedience, and forgiveness
5HERE is the message we have heard from him and pass on to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.
6If we claim to be sharing in his life while we go on living in darkness, our words and our lives are a lie.
7But if we live in the light as he himself is in the light, then we share a common life, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
8If we claim to be sinless, we are self-deceived and the truth is not in us.
9If we confess our sins, he is just and may be trusted to forgive our sins and cleanse us from every kind of wrongdoing.
10If we say we have committed no sin, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in us.