1 John 5
5
Faith in God’s Son Who Became a Human Being
1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his child as well. 2Here’s how we know that we love God’s children: by loving God and obeying his commands. 3In fact, this is what it means to love God: to obey his commands. And his commands aren’t hard to obey, 4because everyone who’s a child of God has won the battle over the world. Our faith has won the battle for us. 5Who is it that has won the battle over the world? Only the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
6This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He didn’t come by water only, but by water and blood. The Spirit is a truthful witness about this, because the Spirit is the truth. 7So there are three witnesses about Jesus: 8the Spirit, the water, and the blood. And the three of them agree. 9We accept what humans say when they’re witnesses. But when God is a witness, what he says is much stronger evidence, because it’s God talking, and he’s talking about his own Son. 10Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts what God says about him. Whoever doesn’t believe what God says is calling him a liar by not believing what God has said about his Son. 11And this is what God is saying: He has given us eternal life, and this life is found in his Son. 12Whoever has the Son has life. Whoever doesn’t have the Son of God doesn’t have life.
Final Words
13I’m writing these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you’ll know you have eternal life. 14When we pray to God, we can be confident of this: If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15And if we know that God hears us, we know that we have whatever we ask for.
16If you see any brother or sister commit a sin that doesn’t lead to death, then you should pray for them, and God will give them life. I’m talking about someone whose sin doesn’t lead to death. There is a sin that does lead to death. I’m not saying you should pray about that. 17Doing wrong is always sin, but there are sins that don’t lead to death.
18We know that anyone who is God’s child will not sin continually. The Son of God keeps them safe, and the evil one can’t harm them. 19We know that we are children of God and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. 20We also know that the Son of God has come and given us understanding so that we can know the God who is true. And we are in the true God by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
21Dear children, keep yourselves away from idols.
Currently Selected:
1 John 5: RAD
Highlight
Share
Copy
Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in
Radiate™ New Testament
Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1998, 2014, 2020 by Biblica, Inc.
Used with permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
