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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 John 5 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_john/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_john/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > 1 John 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_john/4.htm" title="1 John 4">◄</a> 1 John 5 <a href="../2_john/1.htm" title="2 John 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/1_john/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Overcoming the World</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?</p> <p class="heading">Testimony Concerning the Son of God</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For there are three that testify: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.</p> <p class="heading">That You May Know</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek he">a</a></sup></span> 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Little children, keep yourselves from idols.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Greek <i>he</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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