² This one who is life itself was revealed to us, and we have seen him. And now we testify and proclaim to you that he is the one who is eternal life. He was with the Father, and then he was revealed to us.

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God has come, and he has given us understanding so that we can know the true God.^[a] And now we live in fellowship with the true God because we live in fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the only true God, and he is eternal life.

¹⁶ Without question, this is the great mystery of our faith^[a]:

³ And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.

¹¹ And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

⁸ But when people keep on sinning, it shows that they belong to the devil, who has been sinning since the beginning. But the Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil.

² This truth gives them confidence that they have eternal life, which God—who does not lie—promised them before the world began.

⁵ And you know that Jesus came to take away our sins, and there is no sin in him.

⁶ Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.