1 John 5

¹Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

²By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

³For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

⁴For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

⁵Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁶This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

⁷For there are three who testify:

⁸the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and the three agree as one.

⁹If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God’s testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.

¹⁰He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

¹¹The testimony is this: that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

¹²He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life.

¹³These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.