²⁰^aIf someone says, “I love God,” and ^bhates his brother, he is a ^cliar; for ^dthe one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, ^ecannot love God whom he has not seen.

²¹And ^athis commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God ^bshould love his brother also.

CHAPTER 5

Overcoming the World

¹^aEveryone who believes that Jesus is the ¹Christ has been ²^bborn of God, and everyone who loves the ³One who gives new birth ^cloves also the one who has been ⁴born of Him.

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

³For ^athis is the love of God, that we ^bkeep His commandments; and ^cHis commandments are not burdensome.

⁴For everything that has been ¹^aborn of God ^bovercomes the world; and this is the overcoming that has overcome the world—our faith.

⁵Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who ^abelieves 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

1Messiah
2Or begotten
3Lit one who begets
4Or begotten
1Or begotten

Cross references

a 1 John 1:6, 8, 10; 2:4
b 1 John 2:9, 11
c 1 John 1:6
d 1 John 3:17
e 1 Pet 1:8; 1 John 4:12
a Lev 19:18; Matt 5:43f; 22:37ff; John 13:34
b 1 John 3:11
a 1 John 2:22f; 4:2, 15
b John 1:3; 3:3; 1 John 2:29; 5:4, 18
c John 8:42
a 1 John 2:5
b 1 John 3:14
a John 14:15; 2 John 6
b 1 John 2:3
c Matt 11:30; 23:4
a John 1:13; 3:3; 1 John 2:29; 5:1, 18
b 1 John 2:13; 4:4
a 1 John 4:15; 5:1