1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the
Messiah is a child of God; and whoever loves a father loves his child also.
2 This is how we know that we love God's
children: it is by loving God and obeying his commands.
3 For
our love for God means that we obey his commands. And his commands are not too
hard for us,
4 because every child of
God is able to defeat the world. And we win the victory over the world by means
of our faith.
5 Who can defeat the
world? Only the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
6 Jesus Christ is the one who came with the
water of his baptism and the blood of his death. He came not only with the
water, but with both the water and the blood. And the Spirit himself testifies
that this is true, because the Spirit is truth.
7 There are three witnesses:
8 the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and all three give
the same testimony.
9 We believe human
testimony; but God's testimony is much stronger, and he has given this testimony
about his Son.
10 So those who believe
in the Son of God have this testimony in their own heart; but those who do not
believe God, have made a liar of him, because they have not believed what God
has said about his Son.
11 The
testimony is this: God has given us eternal life, and this life has its source
in his Son.
12 Whoever has the Son has
this life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
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