1 John 1

1 That which was from the beginning (the Word, which is, and will forever be God), (the same Word that spoke into the darkness saying "let there be light") whom we have heard (with our ears), whom we have seen with our eyes, whom we have looked upon (and beheld His glory), and handle with our hands, of the Word of life (that came in flesh, was put to death in flesh, was raised in flesh and is alive forevermore);  

2 {For the life was manifested (to us), and we have seen it, and bear witness, and would like to make known unto you that (the Word of God which lives and abides forever) eternal life, which was with the Father (from all eternity), was manifested unto us (in flesh);}

3 That life which we have seen and heard, do we declare unto you so that you can have fellowship with and share in the eternal life that is in the Father and His Son Jesus Christ.

4 And these things I write unto you so that you may know Him and be certain you have eternal life, so that your joy might be full and complete in Him.

5 This then is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare unto you, that God (the only immortal), is only light and life, and in Him is no (death or) darkness at all.

6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him in Whom there is only light and life, and with His incorruptible life, and we walk as if we are still in death and darkness, laboring to build and preserve our own life in the world, we lie, and do not walk the truth that is in Him.

7 But If we walk (abiding in Him who dwells) in the light (that life that is the light of all men, by which all things were created, which was manifested in flesh); knowing that as He Himself is in the light, (in Him are) we able to have true fellowship in that life one with another, and the (precious) blood that ran out of the Son Jesus Christ, allows our flesh to go to rest (knowing that His divinity has healed us from death); purging our hearts and minds from all the labor and toil to establish our own lives, to serve and be served by the living God.

8 If we say we could partake of that life apart from our death being conquered (by God coming) in flesh, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

9 If we acknowledge that laboring and toiling to preserve our own lives in our dying flesh causes us to miss the mark He set for our lives, (and instead look to Him and His strength), Faithful is He who has (testified in the Son that He has) sent away our death in His flesh, (allowing us to rest from our labors), persuading our hearts of His justice (in removing death from us), cleansing our conscience, and divorcing us from all the injustice that death has brought us.

10 If we say that (our body of) death was not the thing reigning over us and causing us to preserve our own lives through the strength contained in our flesh, we make Him a liar, and His word (which allows our flesh to go to rest) is not in us.