1 João 5

¹ Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ, has been begotten by God; and every one who loves the begetter, loves also the begotten by him.

² By this 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 because, every one that is begotten by God, overcomes the world. And this is the victory which overcomes the world, even our faith.

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

⁶ This is her who came by water and blood, even Jesus the Christ; not by the water only, but by the water and the blood.

⁷ And it is the Spirit who testified; because the Spirit is the truth.

⁸ Indeed, there are three who bear testimony: the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and these three agree in one.

⁹ If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. Now, this is the testimony of God, which he has testified concerning his Son.

¹⁰ (He who believes on the Son of God, has the testimony in himself. He who believes not God, has made him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony, which God has testified concerning his Son.)

¹¹ Now this is the testimony, that God has given to us eternal life: and this life is in his Son.

¹² He who has the Son, has this life; he who has not the Son of God, has not this life.

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

¹⁴ And this is the confidence which we have with him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hearkens to us.

¹⁵ And if we know that he hearkens to us, concerning whatever we ask; we know that we shall obtain the petitions which we have asked from him.

¹⁶ If any one see his brother sinning a sin, not to death, let him ask, and he will grant to him life, for those who sin not to death. There is a sin leading to death. I do not say concerning it, that you should ask.

¹⁷ All unrighteousness is sin: but there is a sin not to death.

¹⁸ We know that whoever has been begotten by God, does not sin; but he who is begotten by God, guards himself, and the wicked on does not lay hold on him.

¹⁹ We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies under the wicked one.

²⁰ Moreover, we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, that we might know him that is true; and we are in him that is true-in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and the eternal life.

²¹ Little children, keep yourselves from idols.