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 web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- 1 John 4:20
If 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…
- 1 John 2:4
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
- John 3:19
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
- John 8:12
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 li…
- Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
- Proverbs 2:13
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
- 1 John 1:10
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
- 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…
- 2 Corinthians 6:14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with d…
- John 12:46
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
- James 2:14
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
- Psalms 5:4
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
More to meet God in 1 John
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.