1 John 5:5-15

5 Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who ¹believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

6 This is the One who came ²by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is ³the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

7 For there are ⁴three that testify:

8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.

9 ⁵If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for the testimony of God is this, that ⁶He has testified concerning His Son.

10 The one who believes in the Son of God ⁷has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has ⁸made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son.

11 And the testimony is this, that God has given us ⁹eternal life, and ¹⁰this life is in His Son.

12 ¹¹He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

This Is Written That You May Know

13 ¹²These things I have written to you who ¹³believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have ¹⁴eternal life.

14 This is ¹⁵the confidence which we have before Him, that, ¹⁶if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

15 And if we know that He hears us in whatever * we ask, ¹⁷we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

Cross References

• 1. 1 John 4:15; 1 John 5:1
• 2. John 19:34
• 3. Matthew 3:16; John 15:26; John 16:13-15
• 4. Matthew 18:16
• 5. John 5:34, 37; John 8:18
• 6. Matthew 3:17; John 5:32, 37
• 7. Romans 8:16; Gal 4-6; Revelation 12:17
• 8. John 3:18, 33; 1 John 1:10
• 9. John 3:36; 1 John 1:2; 1 John 2:25; 1 John 4:9; 1 John 5:13, 20
• 10. John 1:4
• 11. John 3:15f, 36
• 12. John 20:31
• 13. 1 John 3:23
• 14. 1 John 1:2; 1 John 2:25; 1 John 4:9; 1 John 5:11, 20
• 15. 1 John 2:28; 1 John 3:21
• 16. Matthew 7:7; John 14:13; 1 John 3:22
• 17. 1 John 5:18-20

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "in"
• [b]. Lit "in"
• [c]. Lit "in"
• [d]. A few late mss add "...in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. And there are three that testify on earth, the Spirit"
• [e]. Lit "for the one thing"
• [f]. Lit "toward"