1 John 5

¹Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the one who gave birth to them also loves the one who has been born of him.

²This is how we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and obey his commandments.

³For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

⁴For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our trust.

⁵Now who is the one who overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁶He is the one who came by water and blood: Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And the spirit is what testifies to this, because the spirit is the truth.

⁷Indeed, there are three testifying:

⁸the spirit, and the water, and the blood—and these three are in agreement.

⁹If we receive the testimony of people, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony of God: that he has testified about his Son.

¹⁰Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified about his Son.

¹¹And this is the testimony: God has given us the life of the age to come, and this life is in his Son.

¹²Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

¹³I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you can know that you have the life of the age to come.

¹⁴And this is the confidence that we have in his presence: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

¹⁵And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask according to his will—then we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

¹⁶If anyone sees his brother or sister committing sin that does not result in death, he should ask God, and he will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not result in death. There is sin that results in death; I am not saying that he should pray about that.

¹⁷All unrighteousness is sin, and yet there is sin that does not result in death.

¹⁸We know that everyone who has been born of God does not continue sinning, but the One who was born of God keeps him safe, and the Wicked One cannot touch him.

¹⁹We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the control of the Wicked One.

²⁰And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we can know the True One, and we are in union with the True One by being in union with his Son Jesus Christ. This One is the true God and the life of the age to come.

²¹Little children, guard yourselves from idols.