Overcoming the World

¹kEveryone who believes that lJesus is the Christ has been born of God, and meveryone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. ²nBy this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. ³For othis is the love of God, that we pkeep his commandments. And qhis commandments are not burdensome. ⁴For reveryone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—sour faith. ⁵Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes tthat Jesus is the Son of God?

Testimony Concerning the Son of God

⁶This is he who came uby water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And vthe Spirit is the one who testifies, because wthe Spirit is the truth. ⁷For there are three that testify: ⁸the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. ⁹xIf we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God ythat he has borne concerning his Son. ¹⁰Whoever believes in the Son of God zhas the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God ahas made him a liar, bbecause he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. ¹¹And this is the testimony, that God gave us ceternal life, and dthis life is in his Son. ¹²eWhoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

That You May Know

¹³I write fthese things to you who gbelieve in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. ¹⁴And this is hthe confidence that we have toward him, that iif we ask anything according to his will he hears us. ¹⁵And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

¹⁶If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and jGod1 will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. kThere is sin that leads to death; lI do not say that one should pray for that. ¹⁷mAll wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.

¹⁸We know that neveryone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but ohe who was born of God pprotects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

¹⁹We know that we are from God, and qthe whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

²⁰And we know that the Son of God has come and rhas given us understanding, so that we may know shim who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and teternal life. ²¹Little children, ukeep yourselves from idols.