God’s Children

1 John 2:12-14New Living Translation (NLT) 12 I am writing to you who are God’s children     because your sins have been forgiven through Jesus. 13 I am writing to you who are mature in the faith     because you know Christ, who existed from the beginning. I am...

Love One Another

1 John 2:7-11New Living Translation (NLT) A New Commandment 7 Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment for you; rather it is an old one you have had from the very beginning. This old commandment—to love one another—is the same message you heard before. 8 Yet...

Jesus Is My Advocate

1 John 2:1-6New Living Translation (NLT) 2 My dear children, I am writing this to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate who pleads our case before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous. 2 He himself is the...

Live In The Light

1 John 1:7-10New Living Translation (NLT) 7 But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and...

The Word

1 John 1:1-4New Living Translation (NLT) Introduction 1 We proclaim to you the one who existed from the beginning, whom we have heard and seen. We saw him with our own eyes and touched him with our own hands. He is the Word of life. 2 This one who is life itself was...