1 John 5:5-15

5 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes ¹that Jesus is the Son of God?

Testimony Concerning the Son of God

6 This is he who came ²by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And ³the Spirit is the one who testifies, because ⁴the 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 ⁵If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God ⁶that he has borne concerning his Son.

10 Whoever believes in the Son of God ⁷has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God ⁸has made him a liar, ⁹because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.

11 And this is the testimony, that God gave us ¹⁰eternal life, and ¹¹this life is in his Son.

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

That You May Know

13 I write ¹³these things to you who ¹⁴believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.

14 And this is ¹⁵the confidence that we have toward 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, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

Cross References

• 1. 5:5 ch. 4:15
• 2. 5:6 [ver. 8]
• 3. 5:6 John 15:26; [Acts 5:32]
• 4. 5:6 John 14:17; 15:26; 16:13
• 5. 5:9 John 5:34, 36, 37; 8:17, 18
• 6. 5:9 See Matt. 3:17
• 7. 5:10 [Rom. 8:16; Gal. 4:6; Rev. 12:17; 19:10]
• 8. 5:10 ch. 1:10; [John 3:33]
• 9. 5:10 [John 5:38]
• 10. 5:11 ch. 2:25; [ch. 4:9]
• 11. 5:11 See John 1:4
• 12. 5:12 [John 3:15, 36; 5:24; 6:40, 47]
• 13. 5:13 John 20:31
• 14. 5:13 John 1:12
• 15. 5:14 ch. 2:28; 3:21; 4:17
• 16. 5:14 ch. 3:22; [Prov. 10:24]