1 John 1:5 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁵ And this is the message we heard from Him, and [now want to] announce to you: God is light [i.e. righteousness] and in His [very nature] there is no trace of darkness [i.e., evil].

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And this is the message [the message of promise] which we have heard from Him and now are reporting to you: God is Light, and there is no darkness in Him at all [no, not in any way].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Common English Bible

⁵ This is the message that we have heard from him and announce to you: “God is light and there is no darkness in him at all.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And this is the announcement which we have heard from him, and which we announce to you: that God is light, and in him there is no darkness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ And this is the declaration which we have heard from him, and declare unto you: That God is light, and in him there is no darkness.

1 John 1:5 Cross References

John 1:19

And this is the testimony John [the Immerser] gave when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” [Note: Levites were men who assisted the priests in the Temple service].

John 1:4

Life existed in Him; and that Life [was what] enlightened mankind [spiritually].

John 1:9

[Now] the true Light, who enlightens all mankind, was [indeed] coming into the world [i.e., to earth].

John 8:12

So, Jesus spoke to them again [i.e., to the Jewish authorities. See 7:45], saying, “I am the light of the world. The person who becomes my follower will never live in [spiritual] darkness, but have the light of [i.e., for his] life [i.e., followers of Jesus will not live in error and sin but in truth and righteousness].”

John 9:5

While I am in the world I am the light of the world.”

1 Corinthians 11:23

For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you: On the night the Lord Jesus was turned over [to the Jewish authorities] He took bread,

1 Timothy 6:16

He alone possesses immortality [Note: That is, only God possesses an eternal existence, with neither beginning nor ending. See John 5:26], and lives in unapproachable light. No one has seen Him, or can see Him. May there be honor and never ending power to Him. May it be so.

James 1:17

Every good [thing that is given] and every perfect gift [received] is from above, coming down from the Father of [heavenly] lights, with whom there can be no change or shifting shadow [i.e., God always remains the same].

1 John 3:11

[Now] this is the message that you people heard from the beginning [of Christ’s ministry], that we should love one another [See Mark 12:31],

Revelation 21:23

And the city does not need the sun nor the moon to illuminate it, for the splendor of God provides the light for it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

Revelation 22:5

And it will never be nighttime there anymore; they will not need the light of a lamp nor of the sun, for the Lord will give them light. And they [i.e., God’s servants] will rule [with Christ, See 20:4] forever and ever.