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Who overcomes the world? Is it not the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

This man, Jesus the Messiah,[a] is the one who came by water and blood—not with water only, but with water and with blood. The Spirit is the one who verifies this, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three witnesses in heaven—the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 5:6 Or Christ
  2. 1 John 5:7 Other mss. lack witnesses in heaven—the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. And there are three witnesses on earth—

Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.(A)

This is the one who came by water and blood(B)—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.(C) For there are three(D) that testify:

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