LO - I John - 5

5:1  Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ, has been begotten by God; and every one who loves the begetter, loves also the begotten by him.

5:2  By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

5:3  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome;

5:4  because, every one that is begotten by God, overcomes the world. And this is the victory which overcomes the world, even our faith.

5:5  Who is he that overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

5:6  This is her who came by water and blood, even Jesus the Christ; not by the water only, but by the water and the blood.

5:7  And it is the Spirit who testified; because the Spirit is the truth.

5:8  Indeed, there are three who bear testimony: the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and these three agree in one.

5:9  If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. Now, this is the testimony of God, which he has testified concerning his Son.

5:10  (He who believes on the Son of God, has the testimony in himself. He who believes not God, has made him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony, which God has testified concerning his Son.)

5:11  Now this is the testimony, that God has given to us eternal life: and this life is in his Son.

5:12  He who has the Son, has this life; he who has not the Son of God, has not this life.

5:13  These things I have written to you, that you may know that you have eternal life--that you may continue to believe on the name of the Son of God.

5:14  And this is the confidence which we have with him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hearkens to us.

5:15  And if we know that he hearkens to us, concerning whatever we ask; we know that we shall obtain the petitions which we have asked from him.

5:16  If any one see his brother sinning a sin, not to death, let him ask, and he will grant to him life, for those who sin not to death. There is a sin leading to death. I do not say concerning it, that you should ask.

5:17  All unrighteousness is sin: but there is a sin not to death.

5:18  We know that whoever has been begotten by God, does not sin; but he who is begotten by God, guards himself, and the wicked on does not lay hold on him.

5:19  We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies under the wicked one.

5:20  Moreover, we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, that we might know him that is true; and we are in him that is true--in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and the eternal life.

5:21  Little children, keep yourselves from idols.