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| 5 | 1 John |
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Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and to love the parent means to love his child; | Faith is Victory over the World 1Jn.5.1-5 |
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it follows that when we love God and obey his commands we love his children too. | |
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For to love God is to keep his commands; and they are not burdensome, | |
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because every child of God is victor over the godless world. The victory that defeats the world is our faith, | |
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for who is victor over the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
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This is he who came with water and blood: Jesus Christ. He came, not by water alone, but by water and blood; and there is the Spirit to bear witness, because the Spirit is truth. | The Witness concerning the Son 1Jn.5.6-12 |
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For there are three witnesses, | |
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the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and these three are in agreement. | |
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We accept human testimony, but surely divine testimony is stronger, and this threefold testimony is indeed that of God himself, the witness he has borne to his Son. | |
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He who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his own heart, but he who disbelieves God, makes him out to be a liar, by refusing to accept God's own witness to his Son. | |
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The witness is this: that God has given us eternal life, and that this life is found in his Son. | |
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He who possesses the Son has life indeed; he who does not possess the Son of God has not that life.
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THIS LETTER is to assure you that you have eternal life. It is addressed to those who give their allegiance to the Son of God.
| The Knowledge of Eternal Life 1Jn.5.13-21 |
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We can approach God with confidence for this reason: if we make requests which accord with his will he listens to us; | |
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and if we know that our requests are heard, we know also that the things we ask for are ours.
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If a man sees his brother committing a sin which is not a deadly sin, he should pray to God for him, and he will grant him life—that is, when men are not guilty of deadly sin. There is such a thing as deadly sin, and I do not suggest that he should pray about that; | |
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but although all wrongdoing is sin, not all sin is deadly sin.
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We know that no child of God is a sinner; it is the Son of God who keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot touch him.
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We know that we are of God's family, while the whole godless world lies in the power of the evil one.
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We know that the Son of God has come and given us understanding to know him who is real; indeed we are in him who is real, since we are in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, this is eternal life. | |
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My children, be on the watch against false gods. | |
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