1 John 1:7

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

“ ‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

“You shall also make a basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of Yahweh.

“In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ,

For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

You shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Yahweh shall bring his offering to Yahweh out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.

“ ‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and the three agree as one.

I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?