1 John 5:9-19

9 ¹If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God ²that he has borne concerning his Son.

10 Whoever believes in the Son of God ³has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God ⁴has made him a liar, ⁵because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.

11 And this is the testimony, that God gave us ⁶eternal life, and ⁷this life is in his Son.

12 ⁸Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

That You May Know

13 I write ⁹these things to you who ¹⁰believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.

14 And this is ¹¹the confidence that we have toward him, that ¹²if 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 ¹³God^[a] will give him life--to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. ¹⁴There is sin that leads to death; ¹⁵I do not say that one should pray for that.

17 ¹⁶All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.

18 We know that ¹⁷everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but ¹⁸he who was born of God ¹⁹protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

19 We know that we are from God, and ²⁰the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.