1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the One who gives new birth loves also the one who has been born of Him.

2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do His commandments.

3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.

4 For everything that has been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the overcoming that has overcome the world—our faith.

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

6 This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.

7 For there are three that bear witness:

8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.

9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for the witness of God is this, that He has borne witness about His Son.

10 The one who believes in the Son of God has this witness in himself. The one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has borne witness about His Son.

1 John 5:1-10, Legacy Standard Bible. Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation.
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