1 John 5

¹Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

²In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

³For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

⁴Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.

⁵Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁶This is he who came by water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by blood.

⁷And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true.

⁸There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.

⁹If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.

¹⁰He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.

¹¹And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

¹²He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.

¹³I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.