5 ⁶ 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. 5 ⁷ For there are three witnesses, 5 ⁸ the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and these three are in agreement. 5 ⁹ 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. 5 ¹⁰ 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. 5 ¹¹ The witness is this: that God has given us eternal life, and that this life is found in his Son. 5 ¹² He who possesses the Son has life indeed; he who does not possess the Son of God has not that life.