| Chapter 5
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| 1 | Whosoever
believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth
him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. |
| 2 | By this we know that we love the
children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. |
| 3 | For this is the love of God, that we
keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. |
| 4 | For whatsoever is born of God overcometh
the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our
faith. |
| 5 | Who is he that
overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? |
| 6 | This is he that came by
water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood.
And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. |
| 7 | For there are three that
bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these
three are one. |
| 8 | And
there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the
blood: and these three agree in one. |
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9 | If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater:
for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. |
| 10 | He that believeth on the Son of
God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a
liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. |
| 11 | And this is the record, that
God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. |
| 12 | He that hath the Son hath life;
and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. |
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13 | These things have I written unto you that believe
on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and
that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. |
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14 | And this is the confidence that we have in him,
that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: |
| 15 | And if we know that he hear us,
whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of
him. |
| 16 | If any man see
his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give
him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not
say that he shall pray for it. |
| 17
| All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death. |
| 18 | We know that whosoever is
born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and
that wicked one toucheth him not. |
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19 | And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in
wickedness. |
| 20 | And we
know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we
may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son
Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. |
| 21 | Little children, keep yourselves from
idols. Amen. |
