Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
Holman Bible
If we say, “We have fellowship
International Standard Version
If we claim that we have fellowship with him but keep living in darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.
American Standard Version
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
Amplified
If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness [of sin], we lie and do not practice the truth;
An Understandable Version
If we claim to share a relationship with God and yet live in darkness [i.e., in a sinful way], we are lying and are not living a truthful life.
Anderson New Testament
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.
Bible in Basic English
If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:
Common New Testament
If we say we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not live according to the truth.
Daniel Mace New Testament
if we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we lye, and do not act sincerely:
Darby Translation
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practise the truth.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and obey not the truth.
Godbey New Testament
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
Goodspeed New Testament
If we say, "We have fellowship with him," and yet live in darkness, we are lying and not living the truth.
John Wesley New Testament
If we say we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth.
Julia Smith Translation
If we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we are deceived, and do not the truth:
King James 2000
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
Lexham Expanded Bible
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
Modern King James verseion
If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and yet walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
Moffatt New Testament
If we say, 'We have fellowship with him,' when we live and move in darkness, then we are lying, we are not practising the truth;
Montgomery New Testament
If we say, "We have partnership with Him," when we are passing our life in the darkness, we are lying and are not doing the truth.
NET Bible
If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.
New Heart English Bible
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not tell the truth.
Noyes New Testament
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth;
Sawyer New Testament
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie and observe not the truth;
The Emphasized Bible
If we say - We have, fellowship, with him! and, in darkness, are walking, we are dealing falsely, and not doing the truth;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
If we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and practise not the truth:
Twentieth Century New Testament
If we say that we have communion with him, and yet continue to live in the Darkness, we lie, and are not living the Truth.
Webster
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
Weymouth New Testament
If, while we are living in darkness, we profess to have fellowship with Him, we speak falsely and are not adhering to the truth.
Williams New Testament
If we say "We have fellowship with Him," and yet live in darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.
World English Bible
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.
Worrell New Testament
If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and are walking in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth;
Worsley New Testament
If we say that we have communion with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practise the truth:
Youngs Literal Translation
if we may say -- 'we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth;
Themes
Blindness » Those that walk in darkness
spiritual Blindness » Is consistent with communion with God
Confession » The reward for confessing sin
Darkness » Those that walk in darkness
Fellowship » Those that say they have fellowship with the lord, but are disobedient
Interlinear
Koinonia
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
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Devotionals
Devotionals about 1 John 1:6
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Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 1:6
Prayers for 1 John 1:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Is Light, So Walk In The Light
5 And this is the message that we have heard from him and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from every sin.
Names
Cross References
1 John 4:20
If any man says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
1 John 1:10
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
John 3:19-21
And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil.
John 12:35
Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little time the light is with you. Walk while ye have the light, so that darkness may not overcome you. And he who walks in the darkness knows not where he is going.
1 John 2:4
He who says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in this man.
Revelation 3:17-18
Because thou say, I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing, and do not know that thou are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.
Psalm 5:4-6
For thou are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil shall not sojourn with thee.
Psalm 82:5
They know not, nor do they understand. They walk to and fro in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Psalm 94:20
Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, which frames mischief by statute?
Proverbs 2:13
who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
Proverbs 4:18-19
But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.
Matthew 7:22
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many mighty works?
John 8:12
Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows me would, no, not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.
John 8:44-45
Ye are from the father, the devil, and ye want to do the desires of your father. He was a man-killer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his
John 11:10
But if any man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.
John 12:46
I have come a light into the world, so that every man who believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
2 Corinthians 6:14-16
Do not become unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?
1 Timothy 4:2
speaking lies in hypocrisy, their own conscience having been seared with a hot iron,
James 2:14
What is the benefit, my brothers, if some man should say to have faith, but has no works? Can the faith save him?
James 2:16
and some man of you would say to them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and fed, but ye would not give them the things necessary for the body, what is the benefit?
James 2:18
But some man will say, Thou have faith, and I have works. Show me thy faith from thy works, and I will show thee from my works my faith.
1 John 1:3
what we have seen and heard we also declare to you, so that ye also may have fellowship with us. Even also our fellowship with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we lead ourselves astray, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 2:9-11
He who claims to be in the light, and hates his brother, is in the darkness until now.