1 John 1:1

The Passion Translation

We saw him with our very own eyes. We gazed upon him and heard him speak. Our hands actually touched him, the one who was from the beginning, the Living Expression of God.

Cross References

Isaiah 41:4

Who achieved all this and made it happen? Who guides the destiny of each generation from the first until now? I am the one! I am Yahweh, the first, the unchanging one who will be there in the end!”

Luke 24:39

See my pierced hands and feet. See for yourselves, it is I, standing here alive. Touch me and know that my wounds are real. A spirit does not have a body of flesh and bone as you see that I have.”

John 19:35

(I, John, do testify to the certainty of what took place, and I write the truth so that you might also believe.)

John 20:27

Then, looking into Thomas’ eyes, he said, “Put your finger here in the wounds of my hands. Here—put your hand into my wounded side and see for yourself. Thomas, don’t give in to your doubts any longer, just believe!”

John 5:26

For as the Father is the source of life, so he has given the Son the power to impart life.

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, “I give you this eternal truth: I have existed long before Abraham was born, for I AM!”

Acts 1:3

After the sufferings of his cross, Jesus appeared alive many times to these same apostles over a forty-day period, proving to them with many convincing signs that he had been resurrected. During these encounters, he taught them the truths of God’s kingdom.

Acts 4:20

It’s impossible for us to stop speaking about all the things we’ve seen and heard!”

Hebrews 2:3

then how would we expect to escape punishment if we despise the very truths that give us life? The Lord himself was the first to announce these things, and those who heard him firsthand confirmed their accuracy.

1 John 4:14

Moreover, we have seen with our own eyes and can testify to the truth that Father God has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

1 John 5:7

So we have these three constant witnesses giving their evidence:

Revelation 1:11

saying to me: Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

Revelation 1:8

“I am the Aleph and the Tav, the beginning and the ending,” says the Lord God, “who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Revelation 19:13

He wore a robe dipped in blood, and his title is called the Word of God.

Revelation 2:8

Write the following to the messenger of the congregation in Smyrna. For these are the words of the one who is the Beginning and the End, the one who became a corpse, but came back to life: