1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. And everyone who loves the Father also loves the child born of him.
2This is how we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep his commandments.
3For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not a heavy burden.
4For everyone who is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world: our faith.
5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
6This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.
7For there are three that bear record in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit. And these three are one.
8And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, and the water, and the blood. And these three agree in one.
9If we accept the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God, which he has given about his Son.
10Whoever believes in the Son of God has this witness in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he does not believe the record that God gave about his Son.
11And this is the record: that 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.
13I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life, and so that you may believe in the name of the Son of God.
14And this is the confidence we have in him: if we ask anything that agrees with his will, he hears us.
15And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, then we know that we have what we asked of him.
16If anyone sees his brother commit a sin that does not lead to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life, for those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I do not say that he should pray about that.
17All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin that does not lead to death.
18We know that whoever is born of God does not sin. The one born of God keeps himself, and that wicked one does not touch him.
19And we know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in wickedness.
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. This is the true God, and eternal life.
21Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.