1 John 5

¹²But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—

¹³children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.

²⁹If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.

⁴²Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.

⁷Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

²²Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

²³For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

⁴because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.

³⁴A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

³⁵By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

⁵But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:

²²and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.

²³And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.

¹⁷This is My command to you: Love one another.

²¹And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.

¹⁵If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

¹⁰If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.

⁹Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

²¹Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

²²Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”

⁶And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.

³By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.

⁵⁷But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

⁴You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

³³I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”

⁹Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

⁵Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

³⁶As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

¹⁵If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

¹Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.

²⁶When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me.

¹⁴how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!

¹³However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.

²⁴He said to them, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.

¹⁷the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.

²⁴to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

¹⁹Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

¹⁴The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.

³²We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

¹⁶As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.

¹⁷And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

³³Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

⁶This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ—not by water alone, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies to this, because the Spirit is the truth.

⁷For there are three that testify:

²⁶When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me.

²¹And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

²Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

³They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.

¹⁶The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

²²placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.

¹⁶As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.

¹⁷And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”

⁵While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”

³¹For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”

¹⁷Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.

¹⁸I am One who testifies about Myself, and the Father, who sent Me, also testifies about Me.”

³²We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

¹⁰Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within him; whoever does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given about His Son.

¹⁶The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

⁶And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”

³³Whoever accepts His testimony has certified that God is truthful.

³⁸nor does His word abide in you, because you do not believe the One He sent.

¹²See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.

¹Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.

²³For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²⁵And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.

³⁶Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”

²⁰And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

⁹This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.

⁴In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

³⁶Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”

²⁴Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.

¹²But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—

³⁰It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

¹⁵that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.

¹⁶Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

³¹But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.

¹²But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—

²³And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.

¹⁰Therefore, brothers, strive to make your calling and election sure. For if you practice these things you will never stumble,

¹¹and you will receive a lavish reception into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

¹⁸Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

²¹I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth.

¹³And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

¹²Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

¹³You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

³Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

²¹Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God,

²²and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.

⁷If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

⁷Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

⁸For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

⁹So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

¹⁰For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

²⁴Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

²⁹The Lord is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.

¹⁸We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

¹⁹We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

⁴It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,

⁵who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age—

²⁵If a man sins against another man, God can intercede for him; but if a man sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to their father, since the Lord intended to put them to death.

¹⁴As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.

²⁶If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

²⁷but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.

²⁸Truly I tell you, the sons of men will be forgiven all sins and blasphemies, as many as they utter.

²⁹But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of eternal sin.”

¹⁰And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

⁴Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.

¹⁵Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

²⁶If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will die for this. He will die because of the iniquity he has committed.

²⁷But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.

¹⁶If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he should ask God, who will give life to those who commit this kind of sin. There is a sin that leads to death; I am not saying he should ask regarding that sin.

⁷Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

⁸Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

¹My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.

⁹Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

⁴because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.

²¹keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.

²⁴Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—

¹Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.

²³For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

⁴The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

²in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

⁴You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

⁵They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.

⁴who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

⁹And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

³¹Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.

³Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

⁴⁵Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

⁹Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

¹⁶By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.

⁶Thus says the Lord, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the Lord of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God but Me.

¹¹And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

¹²Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

¹⁴Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

⁷Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”

³You shall have no other gods before Me.

⁴You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

¹⁶What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”

¹⁷“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

⁹For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

¹³And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’