⁵⁰ And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I speak, therefore, I speak just as the Father has told me.”

³ And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.^(A)

⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life.

⁶³ It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true;^[a] and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.^(A)

¹¹ And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ¹² Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.^(A)

Epilogue

¹³ I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.^[a](B)

²³ And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.^{(A) 24} All who obey his commandments abide in him, and he abides in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit that he has given us.^(B)

²⁵ And this is what he has promised us,^[a] eternal life.^(A)

¹⁶ But for that very reason I received mercy, so that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience as an example to those who would come to believe in him for eternal life.

³¹ But these are written so that you may continue^[a] to believe that Jesus is the Messiah,^[b] the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.^(A)