1 Quod fuit ab initio, quod audivimus, quod vidimus oculis nostris, quod perspeximus, et manus nostræ contrectaverunt de verbo vitæ: 2 et vita manifestata est, et vidimus, et testamur, et annuntiamus vobis vitam æternam, quæ erat apud Patrem, et apparuit nobis: 3 quod vidimus et audivimus, annuntiamus vobis, ut et vos societatem habeatis nobiscum, et societas nostra sit cum Patre, et cum Filio ejus Jesu Christo. 4 Et hæc scribimus vobis ut gaudeatis, et gaudium vestrum sit plenum. 5 Et hæc est annuntiatio, quam audivimus ab eo, et annuntiamus vobis: quoniam Deus lux est, et tenebræ in eo non sunt ullæ. 6 Si dixerimus quoniam societatem habemus cum eo, et in tenebris ambulamus, mentimur, et veritatem non facimus. 7 Si autem in luce ambulamus sicut et ipse est in luce, societatem habemus ad invicem, et sanguis Jesu Christi, Filii ejus, emundat nos ab omni peccato. 8 Si dixerimus quoniam peccatum non habemus, ipsi nos seducimus, et veritas in nobis non est. 9 Si confiteamur peccata nostra: fidelis est, et justus, ut remittat nobis peccata nostra, et emundet nos ab omni iniquitate. 10 Si dixerimus quoniam non peccavimus, mendacem facimus eum, et verbum ejus non est in nobis.
1 John 1 Clementine Vulgate
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- 1 Acts 4:20; John 20:27; 1 John 4:14; John 1:1–18; Luke 24:39
- 2 1 John 5:20; John 1:4; 1 Timothy 3:16; John 17:3; Titus 1:2
- 3 1 Corinthians 1:9; John 17:3; John 17:21; Acts 4:20; Philippians 2:1
- 4 John 15:11; John 16:24; 2 John 12; 2 Corinthians 1:24; Habakkuk 3:17–18
- 5 John 8:12; James 1:17; Isaiah 60:19; Psalm 27:1; John 1:9
- 6 1 John 2:4; 1 John 4:20; John 3:19–21; John 8:12; Proverbs 4:18–19
- 7 Ephesians 5:8; Romans 13:12; Revelation 1:5; Ephesians 1:7; 1 John 2:9–10
- 8 Romans 3:23; Ecclesiastes 7:20; James 3:2; Isaiah 53:6; 1 John 2:4
- 9 Psalm 32:5; Proverbs 28:13; Jeremiah 33:8; Psalm 51:2–5; 1 John 1:7
- 10 1 John 1:8; 1 John 5:10; 1 John 2:4; Psalm 130:3; 2 John 2
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II. 11 "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, and which we have seen with our eyes, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life: and the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us: the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
or does it remain that I deceive myself, and do not the "truth" before Thee in my heart and tongue?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… cold." They desire to persevere, because they hear that it is written, "He that endureth to the end shall be saved." They grieve for sin, hearing that "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." They rejoice in good works, because they hear that "the Lord loveth a cheerful giver." …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For the words of the apostle are the confession, not of the common herd, but of the eminently pious, just, and holy men: "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." When there shall be no sin in a man, then there shall be this apatheia.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)