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1 John 5 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Overcoming the World

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:1 - Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:2 - By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:3 - For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:5 - Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Testimony Concerning the Son of God

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:6 - This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:7 - For there are three that testify:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:8 - the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:9 - If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:10 - Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:11 - And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:12 - Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

That You May Know

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:13 - I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:14 - And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:15 - And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:16 - If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God[fn] will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:17 - All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:18 - We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:19 - We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:20 - And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know 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 - Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
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1 John Chapter 5 — Additional Translations:

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