Thematic Bible
1 John 5:1 (show verse)
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves him that causes the birth also loves him that is born.
1 John 5:2 (show verse)
This is how we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.
1 John 5:3 (show verse)
For this is the love of God, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
1 John 5:4 (show verse)
Everything born from God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world, even our faith.
1 John 5:5 (show verse)
Who is the one who conquers (overcomes) (prevails over) the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
1 John 5:6 (show verse)
This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ. He did not come with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. The Spirit gives witness because it is the truth.
1 John 5:7 (show verse)
There are three that testify: (Latin Vulgate: tres testimonium: three that testify.)
1 John 5:8 (show verse)
The Spirit, the water, and the blood, and the three are in agreement (accord) (concurrence) (harmony). (Latin Vulgate: Spiritus et aqua et sanguis et tres unum: Spirit, water, and blood are united.)
1 John 5:9 (show verse)
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. The witness of God is this, that he gave witness concerning his Son.
1 John 5:10 (show verse)
He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in him. He who does not believe God made him a liar because he does not believe the testimony God gives concerning his Son.
1 John 5:11 (show verse)
The testimony is this that God gave us everlasting life and this life is in his Son.
1 John 5:12 (show verse)
He who has the Son has the life. He who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
1 John 5:13 (show verse)
I wrote these things so you who believe in the name of the Son of God may know you have everlasting life.
1 John 5:14 (show verse)
This is the confidence that we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
1 John 5:15 (show verse)
If we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions (requests) that we have asked of him.
1 John 5:16 (show verse)
If any man see his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he will ask, and God will give him life for them that sin not leading to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I do not say that he should make request concerning this.
1 John 5:17 (show verse)
All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not leading to death.
1 John 5:18 (show verse)
We know that no one who is born of God practices sin. He who was born from God watches over himself, and the evil one does not touch him.
1 John 5:19 (show verse)
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the (power of the) (under control of the) evil one.
1 John 5:20 (show verse)
We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding. We know him that is true for we are in him who is true, [and] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and everlasting life.
1 John 5:21 (show verse)
My little children guard (protect) yourselves from idols.