MODERN LITERAL VERSION

1:1 What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we saw and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life
1:2 and the life was manifested and we have seen and testify and are reporting to you* the life, the everlasting life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us.
1:3 That which we have seen and heard we report to you*, that* you* also may have fellowship with us, but also our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ;
1:4 and we are writing these things, that* our joy may be fulfilled.

1:5 And this is the message which we have heard from him and are reporting to you*, that God is light and there is no darkness in him – none at all.
1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and then should walk in the darkness, we are lying and do not practice the truth.
1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son is cleansing us from all sin.
1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we are misleading ourselves and the truth is not in us.
1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous {F} to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make* him a liar and his word is not in us.
{Footnotes: Please read the Preface. * is our universal footnoting for words contained in the Appendix. These words are NOT the same Greek word as the non-asterisk form; i.e. *for is different from for* is different from for. 1Jn 1:9 is the abbreviated form of ‘in order that he might forgive us our sins and in order that he might cleanse us from...'}