1 John 1:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

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Cross-References

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John 15:11
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
John 16:24
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
2 John 1:12
Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.
2 Corinthians 1:24
Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
Habakkuk 3:17-18
Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

The apostle omits his name and character (as also the author to the Hebrews does) either out of humility, or as being willing that the Christian reader should be swayed by the light and weight of the things written rather than by the name that might recommend them. And so he begins, I. With an account or character of the Mediator’s person. He is the great subject of the gospel, the foundation and…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. these things--and none other, namely, this whole Epistle. write we unto you--Some oldest manuscripts omit “unto you,” and emphasize “we.” Thus the antithesis is between “we” (apostles and eye-witnesses) and “your.” We write thus that your joy may be full. Other oldest manuscripts and versions read “OUR joy,” namely, that our joy may be filled full by bringing you also into fellowship with the F…