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1We want to tell you about the Worda that gives life - the one who existed before the world began. This is the one we have heard and have seen with our own eyes. We saw what he did, and our hands touched him. 2Yes, the one who is life was shown to us. We saw him, and so we can tell others about him. We now tell you about him. He is the eternal life that was with God the Father and was shown to us. 3We are telling you about what we have seen and heard because we want you to have fellowshipb with us. The fellowship we share together is with God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ. 4We write these things to you so that you can be full of joy with us.

God Forgives Our Sins
 5We heard the true teaching from God. Now we tell it to you: God is lightc, and in him there is no darknessd. 6So if we say that we share in life with God, but we continue living in darkness, we are liars, who don't follow the truth. 7We should live in the light, where God is. If we live in the light, we have fellowship with each other, and the blood sacrifice of Jesus, God's Son, washes away every sin and makes us clean.
 8If we say that we have no sin, we are fooling ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9But if we confess our sins, God will forgive us. We can trust God to do this. He always does what is right. He will make us clean from all the wrong things we have done. 10If we say that we have not sinned, we are saying that God is a liar and that we don't accept his true teaching.
a1:1 Word The Greek word is “logos,” meaning any kind of communication. Here, it means Christ - the way God told people about himself.
b1:3 fellowship Associating with people and sharing things together with them. Believers in Christ share love, joy, sorrow, faith, and other things with each other and with God. Also in verse 7.
clight A symbol for the kinds of things that describe God or his kingdom, such as goodness and truth.
ddarkness A symbol for the kinds of things that describe Satan’s kingdom, such as sin and evil.