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In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.
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For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
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Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.
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Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?
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This is he who came by water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by blood.
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And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true.
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There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.
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If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.
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He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.
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And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
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He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.