1John 5
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Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is engendered of God: and whoever loves
him whom engendered loves him also that is engendered of him.
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Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.
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For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are
not grievous.
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For whatever is engendered of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that
has overcome the world, [even] our faith.
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And who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of
God?
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This is he who came by water and blood, [even] Jesus Christ; not with the water only,
but with the water and with the blood.
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And it is the Spirit that bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.
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For there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and
the three agree in one.
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If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for the witness of
God is this, that he has borne witness concerning his Son.
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He who believes on the Son of God has the witness in him: he who believes not God
has made him a liar; because he has not believed in the witness that God has borne
concerning his Son.
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And the witness is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his
Son.
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He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.
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These things have I written to you, that you may know that you have eternal life,
[even] to you that believe on the name of the Son of God.
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And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according
to his will, he hears us:
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and if we know that he hears us whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions
which we have asked of him.
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If any man see his brother sinning a sin not to death, he shall ask, and [God] will
give him life for them that sin not to death. There is a sin to death: not concerning
this do I say that he should make request.
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All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not to death.
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We know that whoever is engendered of God sins not; but he who was engendered of God
keeps himself, and the evil one touches him not.
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We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the evil one.
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And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us an understanding, that we
know him whom is true, and we are in him whom is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ.
This is the true God, and eternal life.
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[My] little children, guard yourselves from idols.