1 John 5:1-12

Overcoming the World

1 ¹Everyone who believes that ²Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and ³everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.

2 ⁴By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

3 For ⁵this is the love of God, that we ⁶keep his commandments. And ⁷his commandments are not burdensome.

4 For ⁸everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world--⁹our faith.

5 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes ¹⁰that Jesus is the Son of God?

Testimony Concerning the Son of God

6 This is he who came ¹¹by water and blood--Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And ¹²the Spirit is the one who testifies, because ¹³the 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 ¹⁴If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God ¹⁵that he has borne concerning his Son.

10 Whoever believes in the Son of God ¹⁶has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God ¹⁷has made him a liar, ¹⁸because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.

11 And this is the testimony, that God gave us ¹⁹eternal life, and ²⁰this life is in his Son.

12 ²¹Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

Cross References

• 1. John 1:12
• 2. 1 John 2:22
• 3. John 8:42
• 4. 1 John 2:5; 1 John 3:24; 1 John 4:13
• 5. 2 John 6; See John 14:15
• 6. See 1 John 2:3
• 7. Matthew 11:30
• 8. 1 John 3:9; 1 John 4:4; John 16:33
• 9. [1 Corinthians 15:57; Ephesians 6:16]
• 10. 1 John 4:15
• 11. [ver. 8]
• 12. John 15:26; [Acts 5:32]
• 13. John 14:17; John 15:26; John 16:13
• 14. John 5:34, 36, 37; John 8:17, 18
• 15. See Matthew 3:17
• 16. [Romans 8:16; Galatians 4:6; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 19:10]
• 17. 1 John 1:10; [John 3:33]
• 18. [John 5:38]
• 19. 1 John 2:25; [1 John 4:9]
• 20. See John 1:4
• 21. [John 3:15, 36; John 5:24; John 6:40, 47]