Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born of God,^(A) and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of Him. ² This is how we know that we love God’s children when we love God and obey^[a] His commands. ³ For this is what love for God is: to keep His commands. Now His commands are not a burden,^{(B) 4} because whatever has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith. ⁵ And who is the one who conquers the world^(C) but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?^(D)

The Certainty of God’s Testimony

⁶ Jesus Christ—He is the One who came by water and blood, not by water only, but by water^(E) and by blood.^(F) And the Spirit is the One who testifies,^(G) because the Spirit is the truth.