I JOHN CHAPTER V.

[He that loveth God loveth his children, and keepeth his commandments. 
4 True faith will overcome the world. 11 Believers have eternal life through 
Christ; 18 they are distinguished from the world by abstaining from sin,
and by a right knowledge of God.]

WHOSOEVER believeth that Jesus is the 
Christ, is born of God: and every one that 
loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is 
begotten of him. 
2 By this we know that we love the children of 
God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his 
commandments; and his commandments are not grievous. 
4 For whatsoever is born of God, overcometh
the world: and this is the victory that overcometh 
the world, even our faith. 
5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he 
that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 This is he that came by water and blood, even
Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and 
blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, 
because the Spirit is truth.
7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, 
the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and 
these three are one. 
8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, 
the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these 
three agree in one. 
9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness 
of God is greater: for this is the witness of God 
which he hath testified of his Son.
10 He that believeth on the son of God hath the 
witness in himself: he that believeth not God, hath 
made him a liar, because he believeth not the record 
that God gave of his Son.
11 And this is the record, that God hath given
to us eternal life: and this life is in his Son.
12 He that hath the Son, hath life; and he that 
hath not the Son of God, hath not life.
13 These things have I written unto you that
believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye
may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye
may believe on the name of the Son of God.
14 And this is the confidence that we have in 
him, that if we ask anything according to his will,
he heareth us:
15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever 
we ask, we know that even we have the petitions that 
we desired of him. 
16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is
not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him 
life for them that sin not unto death. There is a 
sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray
for it. 
17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin 
not unto death.
18 We know that whosoever is born of God, sinneth
not; but he that is begotten of God, kept 
himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
19 And we know that we are of God, and the 
whole world lieth in wickedness.
20 And we know that the Son of God is come, 
and hath given us an understanding, that we may
know him that is true; and we are in him that is 
true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true 
God, and eternal life.
21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. 
Amen.