1 John 5:1-13

Christian Standard Bible

5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God,^(A) and everyone who loves the Father^[a] also loves the one born of him. ² This is how we know that we love God’s children: when we love God and obey^[b] his commands. ³ For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden,^{(B) 4} because everyone who has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.

The Certainty of God’s Testimony

⁵ Who is the one who conquers the world^(C) but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?^{(D) 6} Jesus Christ—he is the one who came by water and blood, not by water only, but by water^(E) and by blood.^(F) And the Spirit is the one who testifies,^(G) because the Spirit is the truth. ⁷ For there are three that testify:^{[c](H) 8} the Spirit,^(I) the water, and the blood^(J)—and these three are in agreement. ⁹ If we accept human testimony, God’s testimony^(K) is greater, because it is God’s testimony that he has given about his Son. ¹⁰ The one who believes in the Son of God has this testimony within himself. The one who does not believe God has made him a liar,^(L) because he has not believed in the testimony God has given about his Son. ¹¹ And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ¹² The one who has the Son has life.^(M) The one who does not have the Son of God does not have life. ¹³ I have written these things to you who believe in the name^(N) of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.