Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;

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 with Him,” yet we walk in darkness, we are lying and are not practicing the truth.

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.

A Conservative Version

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not 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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If
ἐάν 
Ean 
Usage: 155

we say
ἔπω 
Epo 
say, speak, tell, command, bid, , vr say
Usage: 824

ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

we have
ἔχω 
Echo 
have, be, need , , vr have
Usage: 479

κοινωνία 
Koinonia 
Usage: 20

with
μετά 
meta 
with, after, among, hereafter , afterward , against, not tr,
Usage: 346

him

Usage: 0

and



and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

περιπατέω 
Peripateo 
walk, go, walk about, be occupied
Usage: 77

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

σκότος 
Skotos 
Usage: 23

we lie
ψεύδομαι 
Pseudomai 
Usage: 10

do
ποιέω 
Poieo 
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
Usage: 372

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

Devotionals

Devotionals about 1 John 1:6

Devotionals containing 1 John 1:6

Images 1 John 1:6

Context Readings

God Is Light, So Walk In The Light

5 This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; 7 but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.


Cross References

1 John 4:20

If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot 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. Cross references: 1 John 1:1 : John 1:1f; 1 John 2:13, 14 1 John 1:1 : Acts 4:20; 1 John 1:3 1 John 1:1 : John 19:35; 2 Pet 1:16; 1 John 1:2 1 John 1:1 : John 1:14; 1 John 4:14 1 John 1:1 : Luke 24:39; John 20:27 1 John 1:1 : John 1:1, 4 1 John 1:2 : John 1:4; 1 John 3:5, 8; 5:20 1 John 1:2 : John 19:35; 1 John 1:1 1 John 1:2 : John 15:27; 1 John 4:14 1 John 1:2 : John 10:28; 17:3; 1 John 2:25; 5:11, 13, 20 1 John 1:2 : John 1:1 1 John 1:2 : John 1:4; 1 John 3:5, 8; 5:20 1 John 1:3 : John 19:35; 2 Pet 1:16; 1 John 1:1 1 John 1:3 : Acts 4:20; 1 John 1:1 1 John 1:3 : John 17:3, 21; 1 Cor 1:9 1 John 1:4 : 1 John 2:1 1 John 1:4 : John 3:29 1 John 1:5 : John 1:19; 1 John 3:11 1 John 1:5 : 1 Tim 6:16; James 1:17 1 John 1:6 : John 8:12; 1 John 2:11 1 John 1:6 : John 8:55; 1 John 2:4; 4:20 1 John 1:6 : John 3:21 1 John 1:7 : Is 2:5 1 John 1:7 : 1 Tim 6:16 1 John 1:7 : Titus 2:14 1 John 1:8 : Job 15:14; Prov 20:9; Rom 3:10ff; James 3:2 1 John 1:8 : John 8:44; 1 John 2:4 1 John 1:9 : Ps 32:5; Prov 28:13 1 John 1:9 : Titus 2:14 1 John 1:10 : Job 15:14 1 John 1:10 : John 3:33; 1 John 5:10 1 John 1:10 : 1 John 2:14 end of crossrefs

John 3:19-21

This is the judgment, 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

So Jesus said to them, For a little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

1 John 2:4

The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

Revelation 3:17-18

Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,

Psalm 5:4-6

For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness;
No evil dwells with You.

Psalm 82:5

They do not know nor do they understand;
They walk about in darkness;
All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Psalm 94:20

Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,
One which devises mischief by decree?

Proverbs 2:13

From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness;

Proverbs 4:18-19

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
That shines brighter and brighter until the full day.

Matthew 7:22

Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’

John 8:12

Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”

John 8:44-45

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 11:10

But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

John 12:46

I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.

2 Corinthians 6:14-16

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?

1 Timothy 4:2

by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,

James 2:14

What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?

James 2:16

and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?

James 2:18

But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”

1 John 1:3

what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.

1 John 1:8

If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

1 John 2:9-11

The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now.

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