1 John 1:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² the life was made manifest, and we saw it, and testify to it, and proclaim to you the eternal life which was with the Father and was made manifest 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; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.

John 1:4

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

John 10:28

and I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, and no one shall 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, but by me.

John 15:27

and you also are witnesses, 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 going to the Father.”

John 17:3

And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

John 17:5

and now, Father, glorify thou me in thy own presence with the glory which I had with thee before the world was made.

John 19:35

He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth—that you also may believe.

John 21:14

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

John 3:13

No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man.

John 7:29

I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”

John 8:38

I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”

Acts 1:22

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

Acts 10:41

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

Acts 2:32

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

Acts 3:15

and 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: sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Galatians 4:4

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

1 Timothy 3:16

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of our religion: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

2 Timothy 1:10

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

Titus 1:2

in hope of eternal life which God, who never lies, promised ages ago

1 Peter 5:1

So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ as well as a partaker in the glory that is to be revealed.

1 John 1:1

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon 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 appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

1 John 3:8

He who commits sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 4:14

And we have seen and 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 which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

1 John 5:11

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

1 John 5:13

I write this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, 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, to know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.