1 John 5
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1Whoever trusts that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whoever loves the father also loves his child. 2How do we know that we love God's children? When we love God and follow his commands. 3Loving God means that we follow his commands, and his commands are not hard to bear. 4Everyone who is born of God defeats the world. The way we gain victory and defeat the world is by trusting God. 5Who can defeat the world? Only those who trust in Jesus, believing he is the Son of God. 6He is the one who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ. He did not only come by water, but by water and blood.#5:6. This is often interpreted to mean the water of baptism and the blood meaning his death. The Spirit gives evidence to confirm this, for the Spirit is the truth. 7So there are three that give evidence: 8the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and all three agree as one.#5:8. The authenticity of verses 7 and 8 has been disputed.
9If we accept the evidence that human witnesses provide, then the evidence that God provides is much more important. The evidence that God provides is his testimony about his Son. 10Those trusting in the Son of God have accepted and hold on to this evidence. Those who don't trust God make God out to be a liar, because they don't believe the evidence God has given about his Son. 11The evidence is this: God has given eternal life to us, and we have this life through his Son. 12Whoever has the Son has life; whoever doesn't have the Son of God doesn't have life. 13I'm writing to tell those of you who trust in the name of the Son of God so you can be certain you have eternal life. 14We can be confident that he will listen to us as long as we ask in accordance with his will. 15If we know that he hears our requests, we can be sure that we will receive what we've asked him for. 16If you see your Christian brother or sister committing a sin that is not a deadly sin,#5:16. Deadly sin. Literally, “a sin to death.” you ought to pray and God will grant life to the one who's sinned. (But not for a deadly sin. There's a sin that is deadly, and I'm not saying people should pray about that. 17Yes, all that is not right is sin, but there's sin that is not deadly.)
18We recognize that those who are born of God don't keep on sinning. The Son of God#5:18. Literally, the One born of God, following the concept at the beginning of the verse. The identification is made clear in the following verse. protects them and the devil cannot harm them. 19We know that we belong to God, and that the world is under the power of the evil one. 20We also know that the Son of God has come, and has helped us to understand so we can recognize the one who is true. We live in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God, and is eternal life.#5:20. This can be understood to mean he gives eternal life, and also that he lives eternally. 21Dear friends, stay away from idol worship.
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1 John 5
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Faith Is the Victory over the World
1Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3#John 14.15. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 4For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 5Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
The Witness concerning the Son
6This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. 7For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8And there are three that bear witness in earth,#5.7,8 in heaven, the Father … bear witness in earth not found in best early manuscripts. the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. 9If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. 10He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. 11#John 3.36. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
The Knowledge of Eternal Life
13These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.#5.13 and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God not found in best early manuscripts. 14And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. 16If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. 17All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
18We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself,#5.18 himself. Some early manuscripts have him. and that wicked one toucheth him not.
19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
20And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. 21Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
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