1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves
2 By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and keep his commandments.
3 For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,
4 because everyone who is fathered by God conquers the world.
5 Now who is the one who conquers the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ, not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
7 For
8 the Spirit and the water and the blood, and the three are
9 If we receive the testimony of people, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.
10 (The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. The one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)
11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 The one who has the Son has the life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
13 These
14 And this is the confidence that we have before him: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
15 And if we know that he hears us
16 If anyone should see his brother sinning a sin not
17 All unrighteousness is sin, and
18 We know that everyone who is fathered by God does not sin, but the one fathered by God, he protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.
19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in
20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, in order that we may know the one who is true, and we are in the one who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
21 Little children, guard yourselves from idols.