1 John 5

1. ¹Every one that believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God; and every one that loves him that has begotten loves also him that is begotten of him.
2. ²Hereby know we that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
3. ³For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous.
4. ⁴For all that has been begotten of God gets the victory over the world; and this is the victory which has gotten the victory over the world, our faith.
5. ⁵Who is he that gets the victory over the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6. ⁶This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus [supplied: the] Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, for the Spirit is the truth.
7. ⁷For they that bear witness are three:
8. ⁸the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three agree in one.
9. ⁹If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God [supplied: which] he has witnessed concerning his Son.
10. ¹⁰He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has witnessed concerning his Son.
11. ¹¹And this is the witness, that God has given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son.
12. ¹²He that has the Son has life: he that has not the Son of God has not life.
13. ¹³These things have I written to you that ye may know that ye have eternal life who believe on the name of the Son of God.
14. ¹⁴And this is the boldness which we have towards him, that if we ask him anything according to his will he hears us.
15. ¹⁵And if we know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
16. ¹⁶If any one see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life, for those that do not sin unto death. There is a sin to death: I do not say of that that he should make a request.
17. ¹⁷Every unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not to death.
18. ¹⁸We know that every one begotten of God does not sin, but he that has been begotten of God keeps himself, and the wicked [supplied: one] does not touch him.
19. ¹⁹We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the wicked [supplied: one].
20. ²⁰And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding that we should know him that [supplied: is] true; and we are in him that [supplied: is] true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
21. ²¹Children, keep yourselves from idols.

Words in italics were supplied by the translators.

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