5This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.


In Context

2 The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us.

3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

4 We write this to make our joy complete.

5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.

6 If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth.

7 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, purifies us from all sin.

1st John 1:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:5This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:5And this is the message which we have heard from him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:5And 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:5And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:5And this is the message which we have heard from him, and announce unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:5This then is the message which we have heard from him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:5This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:5And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:5This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.