1 John 1:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ [So] if we say we are partakers together and enjoy fellowship with Him when we live and move and are walking about in darkness, we are [both] speaking falsely and do not live and practice the Truth [which the Gospel presents].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

Common English Bible

⁶ If we claim, “We have fellowship with him,” and live in the darkness, we are lying and do not act truthfully.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ If we claim that we have fellowship with him, and yet we walk in darkness, then we are lying and not telling the truth.

1 John 1:6 Cross References

1 John 4:20

Those who say, “I love God,” and hate a brother or sister are liars, for those who do not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.

1 John 2:4

Whoever says, “I have come to know him,” but does not obey his commandments is a liar, and in such a person the truth does not exist;

1 John 1:10

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Proverbs 2:13

who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

John 8:12

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”

John 12:35

Jesus said to them, “The light is in you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. If you walk in the darkness, you do not know where you are going.

James 2:14

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Surely that faith cannot save, can it?

John 12:46

I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness.

1 John 1:3

what we have seen and heard we also declare to you so that you also may have fellowship with us, and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

John 11:10

But those who walk at night stumble because the light is not in them.”

James 2:18

But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from works, and I by my works will show you faith.

Psalm 82:5

They have neither knowledge nor understanding; they walk around in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

1 John 1:8

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

James 2:16

and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that?

Matthew 7:22

On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’

1 Timothy 4:2

through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

Psalm 94:20

Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who contrive mischief by statute?

John 8:55

though you do not know him. But I know him; if I would say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I keep his word.