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Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born from God. Whoever loves someone who is a parent loves the child born to the parent.
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This is how we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep God's commandments.
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This is the love of God: we keep God's commandments. God's commandments are not difficult,
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because everyone who is born from God defeats the world. And this is the victory that has defeated the world: our faith.
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Who defeats the world? Isn't it the one who believes that Jesus is God's Son?
Testimony about Jesus
6 This is the one who came by water and blood: Jesus Christ. Not by water only but by water and blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
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The three are testifying—
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the Spirit, the water, and the blood—and the three are united in agreement.
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If we receive human testimony, God's testimony is greater, because this is what God testified: he has testified about his Son.
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The one who believes in God's Son has the testimony within; the one who doesn't believe God has made God a liar, because that one has not believed the testimony that God gave about his Son.
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And this is the testimony: God gave eternal life to us, and this life is in his Son.