1 John 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 (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. ⁴ We are writing this to you that our own joy may be complete. ⁵ Here is the message we learned from him and announce to you: 'God is light and in him there is no darkness, none.' ⁶ If we say, 'We have fellowship with him,' when we live and move in darkness, then we are lying, we are not practising the truth; ⁷ but if we live and move within the light, as he is within the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin. ⁸ If we say, 'We are not guilty,' we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us; ⁹ if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, he forgives our sins and cleanses us from all iniquity; ¹⁰ if we say, "We have not sinned," we make him a liar and his word is not within us.

⁶ and got baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

²² Many will say to me at that Day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? did we not cast out daemons in your name? did we not perform many miracles in your name?'

⁵ and the whole of Judaea and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him and got baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.

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.

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:

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:

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:

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.

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.

²⁹ Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world!

¹³ And yet the Son of man, descended from heaven, is the only one who has ever ascended into heaven.

¹⁹ And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil; ²⁰ for anyone whose practices are corrupt loathes the light and will not come out into it, in case his actions are exposed, ²¹ whereas anyone whose life is true comes out into the light, to make it plain that his actions have been divinely prompted.

²⁹ He who has the bride is the bridegroom; the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens to him, is heartily glad at the sound of the bridegroom's voice. Such is my joy, and it is complete.

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

²⁹ but I know Him, because I have come from Him and He sent me."

¹² Then Jesus again addressed them, saying, "I am the light of the world: he who follows me will not walk in darkness, he will enjoy the light of life."

³⁸ I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you act as you have learned from your father."

⁴⁴ You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. ⁴⁵ It is because I tell the truth, that you do not believe me.

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

⁵ When I am in the world, I am light for the world."

¹⁰ but if one walks during the night he does stumble, for the light is not in him."

²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I am myself resurrection and life: he who believes in me will live, even if he dies, ²⁶ and no one who lives and believes in me will ever die. You believe that?"

³⁵ Then Jesus said to them, "The Light will shine among you for a little longer yet; walk while you have the Light, that the darkness may not overtake you. He who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.

³⁵ Then Jesus said to them, "The Light will shine among you for a little longer yet; walk while you have the Light, that the darkness may not overtake you. He who walks in the dark does not know where he is going. ³⁶ While you have the Light, believe in the Light, that you may be sons of the Light." [vss 36b to 43 are relocated after vs 50] With these words Jesus went away and hid from them.

⁴⁶ I have come as light into the world, that no one who believes in me may remain in the dark.

⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.

²⁰ You will understand, on that day, that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you. ²¹ He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him." ²² "Lord," said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), "why is it that you are to appear to us, and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus answered, "If anyone loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up our abode with him.

¹¹ I have told you this, that my joy may be within you and your joy complete.

²⁷ and you too are witnesses, for you have been with me from the very beginning.

²⁴ hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

²⁸ From the Father I came and I entered the world; again, I leave the world and I go to the Father."

³ And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ.

⁵ now, Father, glorify me in thy presence with the glory which I enjoyed in thy presence before the world began.

¹¹ I am to be in the world no longer, but they are to be in the world; I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

²¹ may they all be one! As thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, so may they be in us — that the world may believe thou hast sent me.

²⁵ O just Father, though the world has not known thee, I have known thee, and they have known that thou hast sent me;

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."

¹⁴ This was the third time, now, that Jesus appeared to the disciples after rising from the dead.

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.

²² from the baptism of John down to the day when he was taken up from us — of these men one must join us as a witness to his resurrection."

³² This Jesus God raised, as we can all bear witness.

⁴² They devoted themselves to the instruction given by the apostles and to fellowship, breaking bread and praying together.

¹⁵ and you killed the pioneer of Life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can bear witness.

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

³² To these facts we bear witness, with the holy Spirit which God has given to those who obey him."

⁴¹ not by all the People but by witnesses whom God had previously selected, by us who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead,

³² So we now preach to you the glad news that the promise made to the fathers

⁴¹ Look, you disdainful folk, wonder at this and perish for in your days I do a deed, a deed you will never believe, not though one were to explain it to you."

¹⁸ Many believers would also come to confess and disclose their magic spells;

²⁷ I never shrank from letting you know the entire purpose of God.

²³ All have sinned, all come short of the glory of God,

²⁶ it was to demonstrate his justice at the present epoch, showing that God is just himself and that he justifies man on the score of faith in Jesus.

³ For God has done what the Law, weakened here by the flesh, could not do; by sending his own Son in the guise of sinful flesh, to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

¹² It is far on in the night, the day is almost here; so let us drop the deeds of darkness and put on the armour of the light;

²⁷ Such was their decision; and yet this is a debt they owe to these people, for if the Gentiles have shared their spiritual blessings, they owe them a debt of aid in material blessings.

²⁵ [Now to Him who can strengthen you by my gospel, by the preaching of Jesus Christ, by revealing the secret purpose which after the silence of long ages ²⁶ has now been disclosed and made known on the basis of the prophetic scriptures (by command of the eternal God) to all the Gentiles for their obedience to the faith —

⁹ Faithful is the God who called you to this fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

³⁰ This is the God to whom you owe your being in Christ Jesus, whom God has made our 'Wisdom,' that is, our righteousness and consecration and redemption;

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself about this; whoever of you imagines he is wise with this world's wisdom must become a 'fool,' if he is really to be wise.

¹¹ Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

²³ I passed on to you what I received from the Lord himself, namely, that on the night he was betrayed the Lord Jesus took a loaf,

¹ Now, brothers, I would have you know the gospel I once preached to you, the gospel you received, the gospel in which you have your footing,

²⁴ (Not that we lord it over your faith — no, we co-operate for your joy: you have a standing of your own in the faith.)

¹⁴ [Keep out of all incongruous ties with unbelievers. What have righteousness and iniquity in common, or how can light associate with darkness? ¹⁵ What harmony can there be between Christ and Beliar, or what business has a believer with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ What compact can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God — as God has said, I will dwell and move among them, I will be their God and they shall be my people.

¹⁴ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Spirit be with you all.

⁴ but when the time had fully expired, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

³ If anyone imagines he is somebody, he is deceiving himself, for he is nobody;

⁷ in whom we enjoy our redemption, the forgiveness of our trespasses, by the blood he shed.

⁶ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are co-heirs, companions, and co-partners in the Promise.

¹⁹ by knowing the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge! May you be filled with the entire fulness of God!

⁸ For while once upon a time you were darkness, now in the Lord you are light; lead the life of those who are children of the light

²⁶ to consecrate her by cleansing her in the bath of baptism as she utters her confession,

⁷ It is only natural for me to be thinking of you all in this way, for alike in my prison and as I defend and vindicate the gospel, I bear in mind how you all share with me in the grace divine.

²⁵ I am sure it is, and so I know I shall remain alive and serve you all by forwarding your progress and fostering the joy of your faith. ²⁶ Thus you will have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus over me — over my return to you.

¹ So by all the stimulus of Christ, by every incentive of love, by all your participation in the Spirit, by all your affectionate tenderness,

¹⁰ I would know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, with my nature transformed to die as he died,

¹³ rescuing us from the power of the Darkness and transferring us to the realm of his beloved Son!

¹⁶ Let the inspiration of Christ dwell in your midst with all its wealth of wisdom; teach and train one another with the music of psalms, with hymns, and songs of the spiritual life; praise God with thankful hearts.

¹⁰ and to wait for the coming of his Son from heaven — the Son whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who rescues us from the Wrath to come.

¹⁵ It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"; and though I am the foremost of sinners,

¹⁶ And who does not admit how profound is the divine truth of our religion? — it is He who was "manifest in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by the angels, preached among the nations, believed on throughout the world, taken up to glory."

² through plausible sophists who are seared in conscience —

² Those who have Christian believers as their masters must not take liberties with them because they are brothers; they must be all the better servants because those who get the good of their service are believers and beloved. This is what you are to teach and preach.

⁵ and constant friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the Truth. They imagine religion is a paying concern.

¹⁶ who alone has immortality, who dwells in light that none can approach, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honour and eternal dominion: Amen.

¹⁰ and has now revealed in the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has put down death and brought life and immortality to light by the gospel.

¹³ Bad characters and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves;

² serving in hope of the life eternal which God, who never lies, promised ages ago —

¹⁴ who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

¹² saying, 'I will proclaim thy name to my brothers, in the midst of the church I will sing of thee,'

¹ Holy brothers, you who participate in a heavenly calling, look at Jesus then, at the apostle and high priest of our confession;

¹⁴ For we only participate in Christ provided that we keep firm to the very end the confidence with which we started,

¹⁰ God is not unfair; he will not forget what you have done, or the love you have shown for his sake in ministering, as you still do, to the saints.

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who in the spirit of the eternal offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve a living God?

²³ let us hold the hope we avow without wavering (for we can rely on him who gave us the Promise);

¹¹ It was by faith that even Sara got strength to conceive, bearing a son when she was past the age for it — because she considered she could rely on Him who gave the promise.

¹⁷ all we are given is good, and all our endowments are faultless, descending from above, from the Father of the heavenly lights, who knows no change of rising and setting, who casts no shadow on the earth.

²² Act on the Word, instead of merely listening to it and deluding yourselves.

²⁶ Whoever considers he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion is futile.

¹⁴ My brothers, what is the use of anyone declaring he has faith, if he has no deeds to show? Can his faith save him?

¹⁶ if any of you says to them, "Depart in peace! Get warm, get food," without supplying their bodily needs, what use is that?

¹⁸ Someone will object, 'And you claim to have faith!' Yes, and I claim to have deeds as well; you show me your faith without any deeds, and I will show you by my deeds what faith is!

² We all make many a slip, but whoever avoids slips of speech is a perfect man; he can bridle the whole of the body as well as the tongue.

¹⁹ but by the precious blood of Christ, a lamb unblemished and unstained.

¹ Now I make this appeal to your presbyters (for I am a presbyter myself, I was a witness of what Christ suffered and I am to share the glory that will be revealed),

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,

¹³ done out of the profits of their evil-doing. Pleasure for them is revelling in open daylight — spots and blots, with their dissipated revelling, as they carouse in your midst! —

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 (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.

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.

⁵ Here is the message we learned from him and announce to you: 'God is light and in him there is no darkness, none.' ⁶ If we say, 'We have fellowship with him,' when we live and move in darkness, then we are lying, we are not practising the truth; ⁷ but if we live and move within the light, as he is within the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin. ⁸ If we say, 'We are not guilty,' we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us;

¹⁰ if we say, "We have not sinned," we make him a liar and his word is not within us.

¹ My dear children, I am writing this to you that you may not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father in Jesus Christ the just;

¹ My dear children, I am writing this to you that you may not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father in Jesus Christ the just; ² he is himself the propitiation for our sins, though not for ours alone but also for the whole world.

⁴ He who says, 'I know him,' but does not obey his commands, is a liar and the truth is not in him;

⁹ He who says he is 'in the light' and hates his brother, is in darkness still.

⁹ He who says he is 'in the light' and hates his brother, is in darkness still. ¹⁰ He who loves his brother remains in the light — and in the light there is no pitfall;

¹⁰ He who loves his brother remains in the light — and in the light there is no pitfall; ¹¹ but he who hates his brother is in darkness, he walks in darkness and does not know where he is going, for the darkness has blinded his eyes.

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 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.

²³ No one who disowns the Son can possess the Father: he who confesses the Son possesses the Father as well. ²⁴ Let that remain in you which you learned from the very beginning; if what you learned from the very beginning remains with you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.

⁵ and you know he appeared to take [our] sins away. In him there is no sin;

⁵ and you know he appeared to take [our] sins away. In him there is no sin; ⁶ anyone who remains in him does not sin — anyone who sins has neither seen nor known him.

⁸ he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.)

¹¹ For this is the message you have learned from the very beginning, that we are to love one another:

⁴ My dear children, you belong to God, and you have conquered all such, for He who is within you is greater than he who is in the world.

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

²⁰ If anyone declares, 'I love God,' and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who will not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love the God whom he has never seen.

⁶ Jesus Christ, he it is who came by water, blood, and Spirit — not by the water alone, but by the water and the blood. ⁷ The Spirit is the witness to this, for the Spirit is truth. ⁸ The witnesses are three, the Spirit and the water and the blood, and the three of them are in accord.

¹⁰ He who believes in the Son of God possesses that testimony within himself; he who will not believe God, has made God a liar by refusing to believe the testimony which God has borne to his Son.

¹⁰ He who believes in the Son of God possesses that testimony within himself; he who will not believe God, has made God a liar by refusing to believe the testimony which God has borne to his Son. ¹¹ And the testimony is, that God gave us life eternal and this life is in his Son.

¹¹ And the testimony is, that God gave us life eternal and this life is in his Son.

²⁰ We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us insight to know Him who is the Real God; and we are in Him who is real, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the real God, this is life eternal.

² for the sake of the Truth which remains within us and will be with us for ever:

⁴ I was overjoyed to find some of your children leading the true Life, as we were commanded to do by the Father.

¹² I have a great deal to write to you, but I do not mean to use ink and paper; I hope to visit you and have a talk with you, so that your joy may be unimpaired.

³ For I was overjoyed when some brothers arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do lead the true Life; ⁴ I have no greater joy than to hear of my children living in the Truth. ⁵ and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood —

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:

¹⁷ You declare, 'I am rich, I am well off, I lack nothing!' — not knowing you are a miserable creature, pitiful, poor, blind, naked. ¹⁸ I advise you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich, white raiment to clothe you and prevent the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to rub on your eyes, that you may see.

¹⁴ I said to him, "You know, my lord." So he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the great Distress, who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹¹ But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they had to die for it, but they did not cling to life.

³ and they were singing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb — "Great and marvellous are thy deeds, Lord God almighty! Just and true thy ways, O King of nations!

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

²³ And the City needs no sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God illumines it, and the Lamb lights it up.

⁵ Night there shall be none; they need no lamp or sun to shine upon them, for the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign for ever and ever.