Lyrics · 1 John
That Your Joy May Be Full
1 John 1:1-2:2
About this song
About this song
This song belongs to the 1 John collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.
- Bible book
- 1 John
- Collection
- 1 John
- Musical styles
- Blues & Southern Gothic
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That Your Joy May Be Full
1 John · Piano Blues
[Intro - unaccompanied]
We are not repeating a rumor.
We heard. We saw. We looked long.
Our hands handled the Word of life.
[Verse 1 - piano answers]
Life stepped into the open;
the witnesses could no longer be silent.
Eternal life was with the Father
and was manifested unto us.
What we saw and heard we now declare,
so fellowship may widen to you.
[Refrain - invitation]
Come into the light with us.
Our fellowship is with the Father
and with his Son Jesus Christ.
These words are written
that your joy may be full.
[Verse 2 - darker turnaround]
God is light; darkness has no room in him.
A mouth may claim fellowship
while its feet choose the night.
The claim cannot make the walking true.
But when we walk together in the light,
the blood of Jesus cleanses every sin.
[Breakdown - voice and piano]
Say we have no sin,the mirror keeps the lie.
Confess it,the hidden thing enters the light.
He is faithful. He is just.
He forgives and cleanses all unrighteousness.
Say we never sinned,we call God a liar
and leave his word outside.
[Refrain - changed last line]
Come into the light with us.
Little children, the writing says: sin not.
Yet if anyone sins, we have an Advocate,
Jesus Christ the righteous.
[Outro - solo voice]
He is the propitiation for our sins,
and not for ours only,
but for the sins of the whole world.
Let the joy be full.

