EVERY one who believeth that Jesus is the Messiah, is born of God; and
every one who loveth him that begat, loveth him also who is begotten by
him. (2)Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love
God, and keep his commandments. (3)For this is the love of God, that we
should keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome.
(4)Because every one that is born of God overcometh the world: and this
is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith. (5)Who is he that
overcometh the world, except he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of
God?
(6)This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus the Messiah; not by
the water only, but by the water and the blood: and the Spirit is the
witnessing person, because the Spirit is the truth. (7)For they are
three who bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy
Spirit, and these, even the three, are one. (8)And there are three
which bear witness upon earth, the spirit, and the water, and the
blood, and the three are for the same one object.
(9)If we receive the testimony of man, the testimony of God is
stronger: for this is the testimony of God which he testified
concerning his Son. (10)He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the
testimony in himself; he that believeth not God, hath made him a liar,
because he hath not believed on the testimony which God testified of
his Son. (11)And this is the testimony, that God hath given life
eternal to us; and this life is in his Son. (12)He that hath the Son,
hath this life; and he that hath not the Son of God, hath not this
life. (13)These things have I written to you who believe on the name of
the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have life eternal, and that ye
may believe on the name of the Son of God. (14)And this is the
confidence that we have towards him, that whatsoever we ask according
to his will, he heareth us. (15)And if we know that he heareth us,
whatsoever we ask, we know that we receive the petitions, which we have
requested, from him.
(16)If any person see his brother committing a sin not unto death, he
shall request, and God will grant him life for those that sin not unto
death. There is a sin unto death: I say not that he should request for
that. (17)All unrighteousness is sin; and there is sin not unto death.
(18)We know that every one who is born of God sinneth not; but he that
is born of God preserveth himself, and the wicked one toucheth him not.
(19)We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the power
of that wicked one. (20)But we know that the Son of God hath come, and
hath given to us understanding, that we might know the true God; and we
are in him that is true, in his Son Jesus the Messiah. HE is the true
God, and the life eternal.
(21)My dear children, guard yourselves against idols. Amen.