SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:6
Si nosotros dijremos que tenemos compaía con l, y andamos en tinieblas, mentimos, y no hacemos verdad;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 John 1:6
Verse 6. If we say that we have fellowship] Having fellowship, koinwnia, communion, with God, necessarily implies a partaking of the Divine nature. Now if a man profess to have such communion, and walk in darkness - live an irreligious and sinful life, he lies, in the profession which he makes, and does not the truth - does not walk according to the directions of the Gospel, on the grace of which he holds his relation to God, and his communion with him. The Gnostics, against whose errors it is supposed this epistle was written, were great pretenders to knowledge, to the highest degrees of the Divine illumination, and the nearest communion with the fountain of holiness, while their manners were excessively corrupt.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 6. If we say that we have fellowship with him , &c.] The Alexandrian copy reads, for if we say: that is, if any profess to be partakers of the divine nature, to be like unto God, and to have communion with him, to have the light of his countenance, and the discoveries of his love: and walk in darkness ; in the darkness of sin, ignorance, and unbelief, or are in a state of unregeneracy and blindness; whose understandings are darkened, and they know not God in Christ, nor have any true sight and sense of themselves, their sin and danger; and are ignorant of Christ and his righteousness, and the way of salvation by him; and are strangers to the Spirit of God, and the work of his grace; and are unacquainted with the truths of the Gospel; and not only so, but go on in darkness more and more; prefer it to the light, love it, and the works of it; have fellowship with them, and choose them; take pleasure in the ways of sin and wickedness, and continue, and walk on in them; if such persons pretend to fellowship with God, they are liars: we lie ; it cannot be, it is a contradiction, the thing is impossible and impracticable; what communion hath light with darkness? or what fellowship can the throne of iniquity, or those in whom sin reigns, have with God? for God is light, and were they partakers of him, or like unto him, or had communion with him, they would consequently be in the light, and not in darkness, and much less walk in it; wherefore they are liars, and do not the truth : they do not say the truth, nor act according to it; they do not act uprightly or sincerely, but are hypocrites, and pretend to that which they have not; and if they did the truth, they would come to the light, and not walk in darkness; (see John 3:21).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 5-10 - A message from the Lord Jesus, the Word of life, the eternal Word, we should all gladly receive. The great God should be represented to thi dark world, as pure and perfect light. As this is the nature of God his doctrines and precepts must be such. And as his perfect happines cannot be separated from his perfect holiness, so our happiness will be in proportion to our being made holy. To walk in darkness, is to liv and act against religion. God holds no heavenly fellowship of intercourse with unholy souls. There is no truth in their profession their practice shows its folly and falsehood. The eternal Life, the eternal Son, put on flesh and blood, and died to wash us from our sin in his own blood, and procures for us the sacred influences by whic sin is to be subdued more and more, till it is quite done away. Whil the necessity of a holy walk is insisted upon, as the effect an evidence of the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus, the opposite error of self-righteous pride is guarded against with equal care. All who wal near to God, in holiness and righteousness, are sensible that their best days and duties are mixed with sin. God has given testimony to the sinfulness of the world, by providing a sufficient, effectual Sacrific for sin, needed in all ages; and the sinfulness of believers themselve is shown, by requiring them continually to confess their sins, and to apply by faith to the blood of that Sacrifice. Let us plead guilt before God, be humble, and willing to know the worst of our case. Le us honestly confess all our sins in their full extent, relying wholl on his mercy and truth through the righteousness of Christ, for a fre and full forgiveness, and our deliverance from the power and practic of sin __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
εαν 1437 ειπωμεν 2036 5632 οτι 3754 κοινωνιαν 2842 εχομεν 2192 5719 μετ 3326 αυτου 846 και 2532 εν 1722 τω 3588 σκοτει 4655 περιπατωμεν 4043 5725 ψευδομεθα 5574 5727 και 2532 ου 3756 ποιουμεν 4160 5719 την 3588 αληθειαν 225
Vincent's NT Word Studies
6. If we say (ean eipwmen). The subjunctive mood puts the case as supposed, not as assumed.Walk in the darkness. The phrase occurs only in John's Gospel and First Epistle. Darkness here is skotov, instead of skotia (ver. 5). See on John i. 5. Walk (peripatwmen), is, literally, walk about; indicating the habitual course of the life, outward and inward. The verb, with this moral sense, is common in John and Paul, and is found elsewhere only in Mark vii. 5; Acts xxi. 21.
We lie and do not the truth. Again the combination of the positive and negative statements. See on ver. 5. The phrase to do the truth occurs only in John's Gospel and First Epistle. See on John iii. 21. All walking in darkness is a not doing of the truth. "Right action is true thought realized. Every fragment of right done is so much truth made visible" (Westcott).
