1 John 1:1-4 - Prologue

¹ It is what existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have beheld, what our own hands have touched, about the very message of life -- ² and that life has been unveiled to us, and we have seen it and now testify to it and we now announce it to you, yea, the eternal life that was with the Father and has been unveiled to us. ³ I repeat, it is what we have seen and heard that we now announce to you, so that you too may share this fellowship with us, for this fellowship that we have is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ; ⁴ and now we write these things to you to make our joy complete.

¹ A revelation given by Jesus Christ which God gave to Him, to make known to His slaves what must very soon take place. He sent and communicated it through His angel to His slave John, ² who testifies to what he saw, the message of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. ³ Blessed be the man who reads them and the people who hear the messages of this prophecy read, and heed what is written in it, for the time is near.