²⁰If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar, for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen is not able to love God whom he has not seen. ²¹And this is the commandment we have from him: that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

5Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father^a also loves the child fathered by him. ²By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and keep his commandments. ³For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome, ⁴because everyone who is fathered by God conquers the world.

God Has Given Us Eternal Life in the Son

And this is the victory which has conquered the world: our faith. ⁵Now who is the one who conquers the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Read in Logos

1 John 5:4: For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

Footnotes

aLiterally “the one who fathers”