If we say (εαν ειπωμεν). Condition of third class with εαν and second aorist (ingressive, up and say) active subjunctive. Claiming…

If we say that we have fellowship with him. If we reckon ourselves among his friends, or, in other words, if we profe to be like him: for …

1. STATEMENT OF THE LEADING THOUGHT (1 John 1:5).
2. FIRST INFERENCE: The true fellowship (1 John 1:6–7); the Chri…

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

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John introduces the first of three tests of Christian faith by the clause “If we claim.” He uses this device to refer to false claims made by the f…

If we say—it is, indeed, an argument from what is inconsistent, when he concludes that they are alienated from God, who walk in darkness. …

If we say that we have fellowship with him
The Alexandrian copy reads, "for if we say": that is, if any profess to b…

A message from the Lord Jesus, the Word of life, the eternal Word, we should all gladly receive. The great God should be represented to this dark w…