1 John 5
1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God; and everyone who loves the one who gave birth also loves the one born of him.
2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep his commandments.
3 For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not burdensome.
4 For everything born of God conquers the world; and this is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.
5 Who conquers the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not by water alone, but by water and blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
7 For there are three who testify:
8 the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and the three agree as one.
9 If we accept the testimony of people, God's testimony is greater; for this is God's testimony: that he has testified concerning his Son.
10 Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony within himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God gave concerning his Son.
11 And this is the testimony: that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
13 I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
14 And this is the confidence we have before him: if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we already have the requests we have made of him.
16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin that does not lead to death, he will ask, and God will give him life—for those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death; I am not saying that one should ask about that.
17 Every kind of wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.
18 We know that everyone born of God does not sin; but the one begotten of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.
19 We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know the True One; and we are in the True One, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
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