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1 John 1:6
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4 And these things we write to you athat your joy may be full.  

Fellowship with Him and One Another

5 aThis is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that bGod is light and in Him is no darkness at all.  
6 aIf we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.  
7 But if we awalk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and bthe blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.  
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we aconfess our sins, He is bfaithful and just to forgive us our sins and to ccleanse us from all unrighteousness.  
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we amake Him a liar, and His word is not in us. 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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1 John 1:6

If we say that we have fellowship - Having fellowship, , communion, with God, necessarily implies a partaking of the Divine nature. Now if a man profess to have such communion, and walk in darkness - live an irreligious and sinful life, he lies, in the profession which he makes, and does not the truth - does not walk according to the directions of the Gospel, on the grace of which he holds his relation to God, and his communion with him.

The Gnostics, against whose errors it is supposed this epistle was written, were great pretenders to knowledge, to the highest degrees of the Divine illumination, and the nearest communion with the fountain of holiness, while their manners were excessively corrupt.


 
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