1 John 1:2

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1 John 1:2

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Summary

(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)

The life

Was manifested

Titus 1:2

And bear

Shew

1 John 5:20

That eternal

John 17:3

Which was

General references

Bible References

The life

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

Life was in Him,

and that life was the light of men.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live.

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Was manifested

You know that He was revealed so that He might take away sins,

and there is no sin in Him.

Now to Him who has power to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation about Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent for long ages

And most certainly, the mystery of godliness is great:

He was manifested in the flesh,
vindicated in the Spirit,
seen by angels,
preached among the nations,
believed on in the world,
taken up in glory.

This has now been made evident
through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus,
who has abolished death
and has brought life and immortality to light
through the gospel.

in the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

And bear

You also will testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

This was now the third time

Jesus appeared

to the disciples after He was raised from the dead.

beginning from the baptism of John until the day He was taken up from us—from among these, it is necessary that one become a witness with us of His resurrection.”

“God has resurrected this Jesus. We are all witnesses of this.

You killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead; we are witnesses of this.

We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

not by all the people, but by us, witnesses appointed beforehand by God, who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.

Therefore, as a fellow elder and witness to the sufferings of the Messiah and also a participant in the glory about to be revealed, I exhort the elders among you:

Shew

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true One. We are in the true One—that is, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

That eternal

This is eternal life:
that they may know You, the only true God,
and the One You have sent—Jesus Christ.

Which was

“The Lord made me
at the beginning of His creation,
before His works of long ago.

In the beginning was the Word,

and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.

No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.

I know Him because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”

I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father;

therefore, you do what you have heard from your father.”

I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

Now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence
with that glory I had with You
before the world existed.

What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin’s domain, and as a sin offering,

When the time came to completion, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

General references

I was formed before ancient times,
from the beginning, before the earth began.

For nothing is concealed except to be revealed, and nothing hidden except to come to light.

You are witnesses of these things.

And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.