1 John 1

1 That which was from the beginning (which is, and which will forever be God), (the same life 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 and was raised in flesh that is forever free from death);  1 John

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) eternal life (which lives and abides forever), which was with the Father (from all eternity), was manifested unto us (in flesh both before and after His resurrection);}

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, 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 in the light (and life that God has promised from the beginning and was manifested in immortal flesh in the resurrection, as possessors of His eternal life that cannot ever be hurt or injured by the death and corruption in the world); knowing that as He is only light (and life; and has freely given us that same life which is the light of all men), so also are we in the light having true fellowship in that life one with another, and the (precious) blood that ran out of His Son Jesus Christ allows our flesh to go to rest; 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 in the flesh, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

9 If we agree with Him that our death needed to be conquered in the flesh; we also see that He has spoken a word to us in His Son; persuading our hearts of His justice in removing our death from us, cleansing our conscience, and divorcing us from all the injustice that death has brought us.