Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

Overcoming the World

5 ^(A)Everyone who believes that Jesus is the ^[a]Christ has been ^[b](B)born of God, and everyone who loves the ^[c]One who gives new birth ^(C)loves also the one who has been ^[d]born of Him. ^2 (D)By this we know that ^(E)we love the children of God, when we love God and do His commandments. ³ For ^(F)this is the love of God, that we ^(G)keep His commandments; and ^(H)His commandments are not burdensome. ⁴ For everything that has been ^[e](I)born of God ^(J)overcomes the world; and this is the overcoming that has overcome the world—our faith.

⁵ Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who ^(K)believes that Jesus is the Son of God? ⁶ This is the One who came ^(L)by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not ^[f]with the water only, but ^[g]with the water and ^[h]with the blood. It is ^(M)the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.