1 John 5:1-18
5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ
has been fathered
by God, and everyone who loves the father
loves the child fathered by him.
5:2 By this
we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.
5:3 For
this is the love of God:
that we keep his commandments.
And his commandments do not weigh us down,
5:4 because
everyone
who has been fathered by God
conquers
the world.
Testimony About the Son
This is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith.
5:5 Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
5:6 Jesus Christ is the one who came by water and blood – not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
5:7 For there are three that testify,
5:8 the Spirit and the water and the blood, and these three are in agreement.
5:9 If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.
5:10 (The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)
5:11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
5:12 The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.
Assurance of Eternal Life
5:13 I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
5:14 And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
5:15 And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.
5:16 If anyone sees his fellow Christian committing a sin not resulting in death, he should ask, and God will grant life to the person who commits a sin not resulting in death. There is a sin resulting in death. I do not say that he should ask about that.
5:17 All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.
5:18 We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.