We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true God. We are in union with the one who is true, his Son Jesus the Messiah, who is the true God and eternal life.

The person who believes in the Son of God believes this testimony personally. The person who does not believe God has made him a liar by not believing the testimony that he has given about his Son.

God abides in the one who acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, and he abides in God.

The person who has the Son has this life. The person who does not have the Son of God does not have this life.

This is how God's love was revealed among us: God sent his unique Son into the world so that we might live through him.

If we accept human testimony, God's testimony is greater, because it is the testimony of God and because he has testified about his Son.

We know that the person who has been born from God does not go on sinning. Rather, the Son of God protects them, and the evil one cannot harm them.