Geneva Bible Notes (1560): 1 John 1

^{1 a} That is, Christ God eternal.

^{1 b} That is, Christ being man.

^{1 c} Which giueth life and had it in him self, {Joh 14}

^{2 !} True witnes of the euerlasting worde of God.

^{2 d} Before all beginning.

^{3 e} The effect of the Gospel is, that we all being joyned together in Christ by faith, shulde be the sonnes of God.

^{5 f} The frutes of our faith must declare whether we be joyned in God or not: for God being the verie puritie & light wil not haue felowship with them which lie in sinne and darkenes.

^{6 g} In an euil conscience, & without the feare of God.

^{7 !} The blood of Christ is the purgation of sinne.

^{7 h} That is, Christ with vs and we with our selues.

^{9 i} If we be not ashamed, earnestly & openly to acknowledge our selues before God to be sinners.

^{10 !} No man is without sinne.

^{10 /} Or, doctrine.