1 John 1:7

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

We should live in the light, where God is. If we live in the light, we have fellowship with each other, and the blood sacrifice of Jesus, God’s Son, washes away every sin and makes us clean.

Cross References

Ephesians 5:8

In the past you were full of darkness, but now you are full of light in the Lord. So live like children who belong to the light.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ. Jesus is the faithful witness. He is first among all who will be raised from death. He is the ruler of the kings of the earth. Jesus is the one who loves us and has made us free from our sins with his blood sacrifice.

Romans 13:12

The night is almost finished. The day is almost here. So we should stop doing whatever belongs to darkness. We should prepare ourselves to fight evil with the weapons that belong to the light.

Ephesians 1:7

In Christ we are made free by his blood sacrifice. We have forgiveness of sins because of God’s rich grace.

Hebrews 9:14

So surely the blood sacrifice of Christ can do much more. Christ offered himself through the eternal Spirit as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will make us completely clean from the evil we have done. It will give us clear consciences so that we can worship the living God.

Revelation 7:14

I answered, “You know who they are, sir.” And the elder said, “These are the ones who have come out of the great suffering. They have washed their robes with the blood of the Lamb, and they are clean and white.

1 John 1:5

We heard the true teaching from God. Now we tell it to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness.

1 Corinthians 6:11

In the past some of you were like that. But you were washed clean, you were made holy, and you were made right with God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

1 Peter 1:19

You were bought with the precious blood of Christ’s death. He was a pure and perfect sacrificial Lamb.

John 12:35

Then Jesus said, “The light will be with you for only a short time more. So walk while you have the light. Then the darkness will not catch you. People who walk in the darkness don’t know where they are going.

1 John 5:6

Jesus Christ is the one who came. He came with water and with blood. He did not come by water only. No, Jesus came by both water and blood. And the Spirit tells us that this is true. The Spirit is the truth.

1 John 1:3

We are telling you about what we have seen and heard because we want you to have fellowship with us. The fellowship we share together is with God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ.

Psalm 89:15

Lord, your loyal followers are happy. They live in the light of your kindness.

Psalm 56:13

You saved me from death. You kept me from being defeated. So I will serve you in the light that only the living can see.

Zechariah 13:1

But at that time a new spring of water will be opened for David’s family and for the other people living in Jerusalem. That fountain will be to wash away their sins and to make the people pure.

Isaiah 2:5

Family of Jacob, let us follow the Lord.

Revelation 12:11

They defeated him by the blood sacrifice of the Lamb and by the message of God that they told people. They did not love their lives too much. They were not afraid of death.

1 Timothy 6:16

God is the only one who never dies. He lives in light so bright that people cannot go near it. No one has ever seen him; no one is able to see him. All honor and power belong to him forever. Amen.

Psalm 97:11

Light and happiness shine on those who want to do right.

1 John 5:8

the Spirit, the water, and the blood. These three witnesses agree.

James 1:17

Everything good comes from God. Every perfect gift is from him. These good gifts come down from the Father who made all the lights in the sky. But God never changes like the shadows from those lights. He is always the same.

John 1:29

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God. He takes away the sins of the world!

3 John 1:4

It always gives me the greatest joy when I hear that my children are following the way of truth.

Psalm 104:2

You wear light like a robe. You spread out the skies like a curtain.

2 John 1:4

I was very happy to learn about some of your children. I am happy that they are following the way of truth, just as the Father commanded us.

Amos 3:3

Two people will not walk together unless they have agreed to do so.

Psalm 51:2

Scrub away my guilt. Wash me clean from my sin.

Isaiah 6:7

Then he touched my mouth with the hot coal and said, “When this hot coal touched your lips, your guilt was taken away, and your sins were erased.”

Isaiah 33:24

No one living there will say, “I am sick,” because everyone living there has had their guilt removed.

Matthew 6:12

Forgive our sins, just as we have forgiven those who did wrong to us.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us. He died to free us from all evil. He died to make us pure—people who belong only to him and who always want to do good.

John 5:4