1 John 1:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² this life was revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us—

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² (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;)

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And the Life [an aspect of His being] was revealed (made manifest, demonstrated), and we saw [as eyewitnesses] and are testifying to and declare to you the Life, the eternal Life [in Him] Who already existed with the Father and Who [actually] was made visible (was revealed) to us [His followers].

American Standard Version (1901)

² (and the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare unto you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us);

Common English Bible

² The life was revealed, and we have seen, and we testify and announce to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And that Life has been made manifest. And we have seen, and we testify, and we announce to you: the Eternal Life, who was with the Father, and who appeared to us.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² For the life was manifested; and we have seen and do bear witness, and declare unto you the life eternal, which was with the Father, and hath appeared to us:

1 John 1:2 Cross References

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God. It is the only Son, himself God, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.

John 1:4

in him was life, and the life was the light of all people.

John 10:28

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.

John 14:6

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

John 15:27

You also are to testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

John 16:28

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

John 17:3

And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

John 17:5

So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.

John 19:35

(He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth, so that you also may continue to believe.)

John 21:14

This was now the third time that Jesus appeared to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.

John 3:13

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

John 7:29

I know him because I am from him, and he sent me.”

John 8:38

I declare what I have seen in the Father’s presence; as for you, you should do what you have heard from the Father.”

Acts 1:22

beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these must become a witness with us to his resurrection.”

Acts 10:41

not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

Acts 2:32

“This Jesus God raised up, and of that all of us are witnesses.

Acts 3:15

and you killed the author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.

Acts 5:32

And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Romans 8:3

For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Galatians 4:4

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

1 Timothy 3:16

Without any doubt, the mystery of godliness is great: He was revealed in flesh, vindicated in spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among gentiles, believed in throughout the world, taken up in glory.

2 Timothy 1:10

but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

Titus 1:2

in the hope of eternal life that God, who never lies, promised before the ages began—

1 Peter 5:1

Now as an elder myself and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as one who shares in the glory to be revealed, I exhort the elders among you

1 John 1:1

We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—

1 John 2:25

And this is what he has promised us, eternal life.

1 John 3:5

You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

1 John 3:8

Everyone who commits sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 4:14

And we have seen and do testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world.

1 John 4:2

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

1 John 5:11

And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

1 John 5:13

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.