1 John 5:6-12

6 This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus [the] Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, for the Spirit is the truth.

7 For they that bear witness are three:

8 the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three agree in one.

9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God [which] he has witnessed concerning his Son.

10 He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has witnessed concerning his Son.

11 And this is the witness, that God has given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son.

12 He that has the Son has life: he that has not the Son of God has not life.

Footnotes

• [a] Or 'truth:' the proposition is reciprocal, as ch. 3.4, John 1.4. And 'truth' amounts only to true; whereas 'the truth' is the whole thing.
• [b] What is omitted here has no real manuscript authority.
• [c] 'Are to one point or purpose' -- to one thing in their testimony. It is more than 'agree.'
• [d] Poieo, as 'make,' ch. 1.10: see Note k, Rom. 1.32.