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1 John 4:17-5:13
New International Version
1 John 4:17-5:13
New International Version
17 This is how love is made complete(A) among us so that we will have confidence(B) on the day of judgment:(C) In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear,(D) because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love because he first loved us.(E) 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister(F) is a liar.(G) For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen,(H) cannot love God, whom they have not seen.(I) 21 And he has given us this command:(J) Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.(K)
Faith in the Incarnate Son of God
5 Everyone who believes(L) that Jesus is the Christ(M) is born of God,(N) and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.(O) 2 This is how we know(P) that we love the children of God:(Q) by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands.(R) And his commands are not burdensome,(S) 4 for everyone born of God(T) overcomes(U) the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.(V)
6 This is the one who came by water and blood(W)—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.(X) 7 For there are three(Y) that testify: 8 the[a] Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. 9 We accept human testimony,(Z) but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God,(AA) which he has given about his Son. 10 Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony.(AB) Whoever does not believe God has made him out to be a liar,(AC) because they have not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life,(AD) and this life is in his Son.(AE) 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.(AF)
Concluding Affirmations
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God(AG) so that you may know that you have eternal life.(AH)
Footnotes
- 1 John 5:8 Late manuscripts of the Vulgate testify in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. 8 And there are three that testify on earth: the (not found in any Greek manuscript before the fourteenth century)
1 John 4:17-5:13
King James Version
1 John 4:17-5:13
King James Version
17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
19 We love him, because he first loved us.
20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
5 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when 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 grievous.
4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
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