^5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born from God and everyone who loves^* the one who fathered us, also loves^* the one who has been born from him. ^5:2 We know in this that we love^* the children of God, whenever we love^* God and we keep his commandments. ^5:3 For^* this is the love^* of God, in-order-that we should keep his commandments and his commandments are not burdensome. ^5:4 Because everyone who has been born from God is overcoming the world and this is the victory, our faith, that overcame the world. ^5:5 Who is the one overcoming the world, if not the one believing that Jesus is the Son of God? ^5:6 This is he who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ; and not only in the water, but in the water and in the blood. And it is the Spirit who is testifying, because the Spirit is the truth. ^5:7 Because three are the ones testifying: ^{5:8 {T}} the Spirit and the water and the blood, and the three are into the one {i.e., agree}. ^5:9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because the testimony of God is this which he has testified concerning his Son. ^5:10 The one believing into the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God, has made^* him a liar, because he has not believed into the testimony which God has testified concerning his Son. ^5:11 And the testimony is this, that God gave to us everlasting life and this life is in his Son. ^5:12 He who has the Son, has life; he who does not have the Son of God, does not have the life.

      ^5:13 I wrote these things to you^° who believe into the name of the Son of God, in-order-that you^° may know that you^° have everlasting life, and in-order-that you^° may believe into the name of the Son of God. ^5:14 And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according-to his will, he hears us; ^5:15 and if we know that he hears us whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from him.

      ^5:16 If anyone might see his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he will ask and God will be giving him life for the ones who are not sinning to death. There is a sin leading to death. I do not say that^* he should ask concerning that. ^5:17 All unrighteousness is sin and there is sin not leading to death.

      ^5:18 We know that everyone who has been born from God is not sinning, but he who was born from God guards himself and the evil one does not touch him. ^5:19 We know that we are from God and the whole world lays in the evil one. ^5:20 Now we know that the Son of God has come and has given us perception in-order-that we might know the true^* one and we are in the true^* one, that is, in his son, Jesus Christ. This one is the true^* God and the everlasting life. ^5:21 Guard^° yourselves from idols, my little-children. Amen.

^{T: The section which is included in the ‘King James type’ translations was originally from a marginal note in the Catholic Latin Bible thus not in ‘The Word of God’.}

      {NOTES: Please read the Preface and other non-bible sections. * is our universal footnoting for words contained in the ‘Definitions’ section. These words are NOT the same Greek word as the non-asterisk form; i.e., *FOR is different from FOR* is different from FOR. ^° (degree sign) denotes plural forms.}