1 John 5
1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whomever has been born of him.
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments aren't burdensome.
4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith.
5 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 This is he who came by water and blood - Jesus Christ; not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
7 For there are three that testify:
8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.
9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has given concerning his Son.
10 Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever doesn't believe God has made him a liar, because he hasn't believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
11 And this is the testimony, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever doesn't have the Son of God doesn't have life.
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
14 And this is the confidence that we have towards him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life - to those who commit sins that don't lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I don't say that one should pray for that.
17 All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that doesn't lead to death.
18 We know that everyone who has been born of God doesn't keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one doesn't touch him.
19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
20 And 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. He is the true God and eternal life.
21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.