Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
If we say (ean eipwmen). Condition of third class with ean and second aorist (ingressive, up and say) active subjunctive. Claiming fellowship with God (see verse 1 John 1:3) involves walking in the light with God (verse 1 John 1:5) and not in the darkness (skotov here, but skotia in John 1:5). See 1 John 2:11 also for en th skotiai peripatew.
We lie (yeudomeqa). Present middle indicative, plain Greek and plain English like that about the devil in John 8:44.
Do not the truth (ou poioumen thn alhqeian). Negative statement of the positive yeudomeqa as in John 8:44. See John 3:21 for "doing the truth," like Nehemiah 9:33.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
John 3:19
John 3:21
James 5:19
1 John 1:8
1 John 1:10
1 John 2:22
1 John 3:7
1 John 4:20
1 John 5:2
2 John 1:2
3 John 1:3
Revelation 22:15
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