“Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
1 John 1:3 - English Standard Version 2016 that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition What we have seen and [ourselves] heard, we are also telling you, so that you too may realize and enjoy fellowship as partners and partakers with us. And [this] fellowship that we have [which is a distinguishing mark of Christians] is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ (the Messiah). American Standard Version (1901) that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you also, that ye also may have fellowship with us: yea, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ: Common English Bible What we have seen and heard, we also announce it to you so that you can have fellowship with us. Our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. Catholic Public Domain Version He whom we have seen and heard, we announce to you, so that you, too, may have fellowship with us, and so that our fellowship may be with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That which we have seen and have heard, we declare unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship may be with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. |
“Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you.
I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands far away, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
And if you do go with us, whatever good the Lord will do to us, the same will we do to you.”
And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe.
And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,
“‘Look, you scoffers, be astounded and perish; for I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.’”
And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
For they were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand,
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,
that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things.
saying, “I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”
Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
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 going to be revealed:
For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.