1 John 1:1 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ It is of what existed from the very beginning, of what we heard, of what we saw, of what we witnessed and touched with our own hands, it is of the Logos of Life

² exactly as these have been handed down to us by the original eyewitnesses who were in the service of the Gospel Message,

³⁹ Look at my hands and feet. It is I! Feel me and see; a ghost has not flesh and bones as you see I have."

¹ THE Logos existed in the very beginning, the Logos was with God, the Logos was divine. ² He was with God in the very beginning: ³ through him all existence came into being, no existence came into being apart from him. ⁴ In him life lay, and this life was the Light for men: ⁵ amid the darkness the Light shone, but the darkness did not master it. ⁶ A man appeared, sent by God, whose name was John: ⁷ he came for the purpose of witnessing, to bear testimony to the Light, so that all men might believe by means of him. ⁸ He was not the Light; it was to bear testimony to the Light that he appeared. ⁹ The real Light, which enlightens every man, was coming then into the world: ¹⁰ he entered the world — the world which existed through him — yet the world did not recognize him; ¹¹ he came to what was his own, yet his own folk did not welcome him. ¹² On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name, ¹³ who owe this birth of theirs to God, not to human blood, nor to any impulse of the flesh or of man. ¹⁴ So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory — glory such as an only son enjoys from his father — seen it to be full of grace and reality. ¹⁵ (John testified to him with the cry, 'This was he of whom I said, my successor has taken precedence of me, for he preceded me.') ¹⁶ For we have all been receiving grace after grace from his fulness; ¹⁷ while the Law was given through Moses, grace and reality are ours through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ Nobody has ever seen God, but God has been unfolded by the divine One, the only Son, who lies upon the Father's breast.

²⁶ for as the Father has life in himself, so too he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

⁵⁸ "Truly, truly I tell you," said Jesus, "I have existed before Abraham was born."

³⁵ He who saw it has borne witness (his witness is true; God knows he is telling the truth), that you may believe.

²⁷ Then he said to Thomas, "Look at my hands, put your finger here; and put your hand here into my side; cease your unbelief and believe."

³ After his sufferings he had shown them that he was alive by a number of proofs, revealing himself to them for forty days and discussing the affairs of God's Realm.

²⁰ Certainly we cannot give up speaking of what we have seen and heard."

¹⁶ For it was no fabricated fables that we followed when we reported to you the power and advent of our Lord Jesus Christ; we were admitted to the spectacle of his sovereignty, ¹⁷ when he was invested with honour and glory by God the Father, and when the following voice was borne to him from the sublime Glory, "This is my son, the Beloved, in whom I delight." ¹⁸ That voice borne from heaven we heard, we who were beside him on the sacred hill,

² (the Life has appeared; we saw it, we testify to it, we bring you word of that eternal Life which existed with the Father and was disclosed to us) — ³ it is of what we heard and saw that we bring you word, so that you may share our fellowship; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

¹³ fathers, I am writing to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I am writing to you, because you have conquered the evil One. Children, I have written to you, because you know the Father: ¹⁴ fathers, I have written to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I have written to you, because you are strong, and the word of God remains within you, and you have conquered the evil One.

¹⁴ and we have seen, we can testify, that the Father has sent the Son as the Saviour of the world.

⁷ The Spirit is the witness to this, for the Spirit is truth.

⁸ "I am the alpha and the omega," saith the Lord God, who is and was and is coming, the almighty.

¹¹ "Write your vision in a book, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and Smyrna and Pergamum and Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea."

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man; but he laid his hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and Last, ¹⁸ I was dead and here I am alive for evermore, holding the keys that unlock death and Hades.

⁸ Then to the angel of the church at Smyrna write thus: — These are the words of the First and Last, who was dead and came to life:

¹³ He is clad in a robe dipped in blood (his name is called THE LOGOS OF GOD),