¹⁴We are confident that God listens to us if we ask for anything that has his approval. ¹⁵We know that he listens to our requests. So we know that we already have what we ask him for.

¹⁶If you see another believer committing a sin that doesn’t lead to death, you should pray that God would give that person life. This is true for those who commit sins that don’t lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I’m not telling you to pray about that. ¹⁷Every kind of wrongdoing is sin, yet there are sins that don’t lead to death.

¹⁸We know that those who have been born from God don’t go on sinning. Rather, the Son of God protects them, and the evil one can’t harm them.

¹⁹We know that we are from God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

²⁰We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we know the real God. We are in the one who is real, his Son Jesus Christ. This Jesus Christ is the real God and eternal life.

²¹Dear children, guard yourselves from false gods.

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1 John 5:20: And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.