⁶⁹ We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”^(A)

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

Faith in the Incarnate Son of God

5 Everyone who believes^(A) that Jesus is the Christ^(B) is born of God,^(C) and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.^(D)

⁵ Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.^(A)

²⁴ I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he,^(A) you will indeed die in your sins.”

¹⁹ “I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe^(A) that I am who I am.^(B)

¹⁶ And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love.^(A) Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.^(B)