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1 John 5 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:1 - Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:2 - In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:3 - For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:4 - Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:5 - Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:6 - This is he who came by water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:7 - And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:8 - There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:9 - If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:10 - He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:11 - And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:12 - He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:13 - I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:14 - And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:15 - And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:16 - If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Jo 5:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:17 - All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:18 - We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:19 - We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Jo 5:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:20 - And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:21 - My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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1 John Chapter 5 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Morphological Greek New Testament Textus Receptus Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras