V.  Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten of God; and every one that loves him who begot, loves also him that has been begotten of him.

²In this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and do his commandments.

³For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome;

⁴because all that is begotten of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.

⁵Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁶This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus the Christ; not in the water only, but in the water and in the blood. And the Spirit is that which bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.

⁷For there are three who bear witness; the Spirit, and the water, and the blood;

⁸and the three agree in the one.

⁹If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness of God, that he has borne witness concerning his Son.

¹⁰He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that believes not God has made him a liar; because he has not believed in the witness which God has borne concerning his Son.

¹¹And this is the witness, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

¹²He that has the Son has the life; he that has not the Son of God has not the life.

¹³These things I wrote to you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, who believe on the name of the Son of God.

¹⁴And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

¹⁵And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

¹⁶If any one see his brother sin a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he will give him life,—to those who sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death; for that I do not say that he shall pray.

¹⁷All unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not unto death.

¹⁸We know that every one who has been begotten of God sins not; but he that was begotten of God keeps himself; and the evil one touches him not.

¹⁹We know that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the evil one.

²⁰And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us understanding, that we may know the True one; and we are in the True One, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

²¹Little children, keep yourselves from the idols.