³ What we have seen and [ourselves] heard, we are also telling you, so that you too may ^[a]realize and enjoy fellowship as partners and partakers with us. And [this] fellowship that we have [which is a ^[b]distinguishing mark of Christians] is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ (the Messiah).

⁷ So there are three witnesses ^[a]in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are One;