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Everyone who loves the Father also loves his children. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>We know that we love God's children when we love God by obeying his commandments. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>To love God means that we obey his commandments. Obeying his commandments isn't difficult <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>because everyone who has been born from God has won the victory over the world. Our faith is what wins the victory over the world.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who wins the victory over the world? Isn't it the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>This Son of God is Jesus Christ, who came by water and blood. He didn't come with water only, but with water and with blood. The Spirit is the one who verifies this, because the Spirit is the truth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>There are three witnesses: <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>the Spirit, the water, and the blood. These three witnesses agree.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>We accept human testimony. God's testimony is greater because it is the testimony that he has given about his Son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony of God in them. Those who don't believe God have made God a liar. They haven't believed the testimony that God has given about his Son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>This is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is found in his Son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The person who has the Son has this life. The person who doesn't have the Son of God doesn't have this life.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I've written this to those who believe in the Son of God so that they will know that they have eternal life. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>We are confident that God listens to us if we ask for anything that has his approval. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>We know that he listens to our requests. So we know that we already have what we ask him for.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If you see another believer committing a sin that doesn't lead to death, you should pray that God would give that person life. This is true for those who commit sins that don't lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I'm not telling you to pray about that. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Every kind of wrongdoing is sin, yet there are sins that don't lead to death.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>We know that those who have been born from God don't go on sinning. Rather, the Son of God protects them, and the evil one can't harm them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>We know that we are from God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we know the real God. We are in the one who is real, his Son Jesus Christ. This Jesus Christ is the real God and eternal life.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Dear children, guard yourselves from false gods.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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