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It is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For there are three that bear witness: <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>in agreement. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for the witness of God is this, that He has borne witness about His Son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The one who believes in the Son of God has this witness in himself. The one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has borne witness about His Son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the witness is this, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have that life. <p class="hdg">That You May Know</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And this is the confidence which we have <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And if we know that He hears us <i>in</i> whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If anyone sees his brother <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>committing a sin not <i>leading</i> to death, he shall ask and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span><i>God</i> will for him give life to those who commit sin not <i>leading</i> to death. There is a sin <i>leading</i> to death; I do not say that he should make request for this. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not <i>leading</i> to death. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>We know that no one who has been <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>born of God sins; but He who was <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>begotten of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in <i>the power of</i> the evil one. <span class="reftext"><a href="/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. This is the true God and eternal life. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Little children, guard yourselves from idols.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">1</span> Messiah<br><span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i>begotten</i><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> Lit <i>one who begets</i><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i>begotten</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Or <i>begotten</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>in</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>in</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>in</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> A few late mss add <i>...in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. And there are three that testify on earth, the Spirit</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Lit <i>for the one thing</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Lit <i>toward</i><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Lit <i>sinning</i><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Or <i>God will give him life</i>, that is, <i>to those who...</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Or <i>begotten</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Or <i>born</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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