1st John Chapter 1 verse 6 Holy Bible
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
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If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:
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If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practise the truth.
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If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
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If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.
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if we may say -- `we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - A corollary from verse 5. If God is Light to the exclusion of all darkness, then fellowship with darkness excludes fellowship with him. If we say ἐὰν εἴπωμεν; "if any of us, no matter who he be, at any time say." The construction marks the supposed action as one likely to occur. The apostle includes himself in the possibility, and of course he and his readers did say that they had communion with God. By" walking" περιπατεῖν ´ερσαρι is meant our daily life, our movement and activity in the world (John 8:12; John 11:9, 10; John 12:35; John 21:18; Revelation 21:24); this activity will inevitably express the κοινωνία in which we live. To have communion with him who is Light, and be continually exhibiting a life of darkness, is impossible. The Carpocratians and other Gnostics, who taught that to the enlightened all action is indifferent, because neither purity nor filth can change the nature of pure gold, are perhaps here aimed at (Mansel, 'Gnostic Heresies,' pages 117-121). We lie, and do not the truth. As in verse 5, St. John enforces a statement by denying the opposite. But the negative is not a mere equivalent of the positive: the two together mean, "we are false both in word and deed." Truth with St. John is not confined to language; it is exhibited in conduct also (cf. ποιεῖν ψεῦδος, Revelation 21:27; Revelation 22:15).
