1 John 5

Thomson^{(i) 1} Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God; and every one who loveth him who begat, loveth him also who is begotten of him; ² by this we know that we love the children of God. While we love God, we keep his commandments; ³ for this is the love of God that we keep his commandments. Now his commandments are not grievous, ⁴ because whatever is born of God overcometh the world, and the victory which overcometh the world is our faith. ⁵ Who is he that overcometh the world, but he who believeth that Jesus is the son of God? ⁶ This Jesus is the Christ, whose coming was pointed out by water and by blood, not by the water only, but by the water and the blood; and the spirit is testifying this. Because the spirit is the truth, ⁷ because there are three that bear witness, the Spirit, and the Water, and the Blood, and these three are to one and the same thing, ⁸ OMITTED ⁹ if we admit the testimony of men the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God, which he hath testified concerning his son. ¹⁰ He who believeth in the son of God hath this testimony in himself: he who doth not believe God, impeacheth his veracity, because he believeth not the testimony which God hath given concerning his son. ¹¹ Now this is the testimony, that God hath given us everlasting life, and this life is by his son: ¹² he who hath the son hath this life: he who hath not the son of God hath not this life. ¹³ These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the son of God, that you may know that you have everlasting life; and that you may believe in the name of the son of God: ¹⁴ this also is the confidence which we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will he hearkeneth to us. ¹⁵ Now, if we know that he hearkeneth to us in whatever we may ask; we know that we obtain from him the petitions which we have asked. ¹⁶ If any one see his brother committing a sin not unto death, let him ask, and he will give him life for them who do not sin unto death: there is a sin unto death, with respect to this I do not say that he should make petition. ¹⁷ Every act of unrighteousness is a sin; and there is a sin not unto death, ¹⁸ and we know that every one who is born of God doth not sin; he indeed who is born of God guardeth himself and the wicked one doth not cling to him. ¹⁹ We know that we are of God and that the whole world is laid prostrate by the wicked one; ²⁰ and we know that the son of God is come, and hath given us understanding that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, and in his son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and the life eternal. ²¹ Dear children, keep yourselves from the idols. Amen.