1 John 1:5
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
KJV
Καὶ ἔστιν αὕτη ἡ ἀγγελία ἣν ἀκηκόαμεν ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀναγγέλλομεν ὑμῖν, ὅτι ὁ θεὸς φῶς ἐστιν καὶ σκοτία ἐν αὐτῷ οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδεμία.
Greek NT
Et hæc est annuntiatio, quam audivimus ab eo, et annuntiamus vobis : quoniam Deus lux est, et tenebræ in eo non sunt ullæ.
Vulgate
And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
ASV
And this is the declaration which we have heard from him and declare unto you: That God is light and in him there is no darkness.
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In the original Greek
18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὐδείς
oudeis
adjective · 235×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
σκοτία
skotia
noun · 16×
φῶς
phos
noun · 72×
ἀγγελία
aggelia
noun · 2×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἀναγγέλλω
anaggello
verb · 13×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ἐν αὐτῷ οὐκ ἔστιν | NIV/RP: ἐν αὐτῷ οὐκ ἔστιν | WH/Treg: οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐτῷ
- ἐν αὐτῷ οὐκ ἔστιν — SBLGNT
- ἐν αὐτῷ οὐκ ἔστιν — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐτῷ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Themes
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. Moses in the beginning of the history and writings of the Old Testament speaks to us of the objects of sense, and enumerates them to us at length. For, In the beginning, he says, God made the heaven and the earth, and then he adds, that light was created, and a second heaven and the stars, the various kinds of living creatures, and, that we may not delay by going through par…
1 And the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In the preceding section, my revered brother Ambrosius, brother formed according to the Gospel, we have discussed, as far as is at present in our power, what the Gospel is, and what is the beginning in which the Word was, and what the Word is which was in the beginning. We now come to consider the next point in the work before …
It is not without reason or by chance that we worship towards the East. But seeing that we are composed of a visible and an invisible nature, that is to say, of a nature partly of spirit and partly of sense, we render also a twofold worship to the Creator; just as we sing both with our spirit and our bodily lips, and are baptized with both water and Spirit, and are united with …
Cross-references
- 1John 1:3 — 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.
- 1John 1:7 — But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
- 1John 3:11 — For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
- 1John 3:11 — For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
- 1John 4:8 — He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
- 1Tim 6:16 — Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
- 1Tim 6:16 — Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
- 2Cor 6:14 — Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
- Dan 2:22 — He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
- Dan 7:9 — I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wh
- Gen 1:3 — And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
- Isa 2:5 — O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
- Isa 9:2 — The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
- Isa 60:19 — The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
- Jas 1:17 — Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
- Jas 1:17 — Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
- John 1:4 — In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
- John 1:4 — In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
- John 1:9 — That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
- John 8:12 — Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
- John 9:5 — As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
- John 12:35 — Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
- Luke 1:79 — To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
- Matt 5:16 — Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
- Ps 27:1 — The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
- Ps 36:9 — For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
- Ps 84:11 — For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
- Ps 94:20 — Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
- Ps 104:2 — Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
- Rev 21:23 — And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
- Rev 22:5 — And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
- Rom 13:12 — The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.