1 John 1:1

New Century Version

We write you now about what has always existed, which we have heard, we have seen with our own eyes, we have looked at, and we have touched with our hands. We write to you about the Word that gives life.

Cross References

Isaiah 41:4

Who caused this to happen? Who has controlled history since the beginning? I, the Lord, am the one. I was here at the beginning, and I will be here when all things are finished.”

Micah 5:2

“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are too small to be among the army groups from Judah, from you will come one who will rule Israel for me. He comes from very old times, from days long ago.”

Luke 1:2

They have written the same things that we learned from others—the people who saw those things from the beginning and served God by telling people his message.

Luke 24:39

Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have a living body as you see I have.”

John 19:35

(The one who saw this happen is the one who told us this, and whatever he says is true. And he knows that he tells the truth, and he tells it so that you might believe.)

John 20:27

Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Put your hand here in my side. Stop being an unbeliever and believe.”

John 5:26

Life comes from the Father himself, and he has allowed the Son to have life in himself as well.

John 8:58

Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, before Abraham was even born, I am!”

Acts 1:3

After his death, he showed himself to them and proved in many ways that he was alive. The apostles saw Jesus during the forty days after he was raised from the dead, and he spoke to them about the kingdom of God.

Acts 4:20

We cannot keep quiet. We must speak about what we have seen and heard.”

Hebrews 2:3

So surely we also will be punished if we ignore this great salvation. The Lord himself first told about this salvation, and those who heard him testified it was true.

1 John 4:14

We have seen and can testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

1 John 5:7

So there are three witnesses:

Revelation 1:11

The voice said, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

Revelation 1:8

The Lord God says, “I am the Alpha and the Omega. I am the One who is and was and is coming. I am the Almighty.”

Revelation 19:13

He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.

Revelation 2:8

“Write this to the angel of the church in Smyrna: “The One who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again, says this: