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1 John 5:1–12

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Overcoming the World

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

2aBy 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 1aborn 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?

6This is the One who came aby water and blood, Jesus Christ; not 1with the water only, but 2with the water and 3with the blood. It is bthe Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.

7For there are athree that bear witness:

81the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are 2in agreement.

9aIf we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for the witness of God is this, that bHe has borne witness about His Son.

10The one who believes in the Son of God ahas this witness in himself. The one who does not believe God has bmade Him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has borne witness about His Son.

11And the witness is this, that God gave us aeternal life, and bthis life is in His Son.

12aHe who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have that life.

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

  1. 1Messiah
  2. 2Or begotten
  3. 3Lit one who begets
  4. 4Or begotten
  5. 1Or begotten
  6. 1Lit in
  7. 2Lit in
  8. 3Lit in
  9. 1A few late mss add … in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. And there are three that testify on earth, the Spirit
  10. 2Lit for the one thing

Cross references

  1. a1 John 2:22f; 4:2, 15
  2. bJohn 1:3; 3:3; 1 John 2:29; 5:4, 18
  3. cJohn 8:42
  4. a1 John 2:5
  5. b1 John 3:14
  6. aJohn 14:15; 2 John 6
  7. b1 John 2:3
  8. cMatt 11:30; 23:4
  9. aJohn 1:13; 3:3; 1 John 2:29; 5:1, 18
  10. b1 John 2:13; 4:4
  11. a1 John 4:15; 5:1
  12. aJohn 19:34
  13. bMatt 3:16f; John 15:26; 16:13–15
  14. aMatt 18:16
  15. aJohn 5:34, 37; 8:18
  16. bMatt 3:17; John 5:32, 37
  17. aRom 8:16; Gal 4–6; Rev 12:17
  18. bJohn 3:18, 33; 1 John 1:10
  19. aJohn 3:36; 1 John 1:2; 2:25; 4:9; 5:13, 20
  20. bJohn 1:4
  21. aJohn 3:15f, 36

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