1 John 1:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.”
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“And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)”
King James Version · Public Domain“(and the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare unto you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us);”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and the Life was manifested, and we have seen, and do testify, and declare to you the Life, the age-during, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us--”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 John 1:2 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Proverbs 8:22The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.
- John 1:1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- John 1:4In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
- John 1:18No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
- John 3:13No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.
- John 7:29but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”
- John 8:38I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
- John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
- John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
- John 15:27And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
- John 16:28I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”
- John 17:3Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
- John 17:5And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.
- John 21:14This was now the third time that Jesus appeared to the disciples after He was raised from the dead.
- Acts 1:22beginning from John’s baptism until the day Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”
- Acts 2:32God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.
- Acts 3:15You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of the fact.
- Acts 5:32We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”
- Acts 10:41not by all the people, but by the witnesses God had chosen beforehand, by us who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.
- Romans 8:3For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
- Romans 16:25Now to Him who is able to strengthen you by my gospel and by the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery concealed for ages past
- Galatians 4:4But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
- 1 Timothy 3:16By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.
- 2 Timothy 1:10And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,
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