Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in 1 John 1:6

“If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:”

1 John 1:6 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in 1 John 1:6, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of 1 John 1. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

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.

6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

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.

8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • 1 John 4:20If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
  • 1 John 2:4He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
  • John 3:19And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
  • John 8:12Then 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.
  • Proverbs 4:18But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
  • Proverbs 2:13Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
  • 1 John 1:10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
  • John 12:35Then 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.
  • 2 Corinthians 6:14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
  • John 12:46I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
  • James 2:14What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
  • Psalms 5:4For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
  • 1 John 1:3That 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.
  • John 11:10But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

More to meet God in 1 John

1 John 1:91 John 4:191 John 4:181 John 3:11 John 5:141 John 4:81 John 5:201 John 2:11 John 5:61 John 5:111 John 1:31 John 3:221 John 2:161 John 2:13

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.