The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 Everyone who believes that Yeshua is the Messiah has God as his father, and everyone who loves a father loves his offspring too.
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Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.
2 Here is how we know that we love God's children: when we love God, we also do what he commands.
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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.
3 For loving God means obeying his commands. Moreover, his commands are not burdensome,
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For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
4 because everything which has God as its Father overcomes the world. And this is what victoriously overcomes the world: our trust.
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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.
5 Who does overcome the world if not the person who believes that Yeshua is the Son of God?
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Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 He is the one who came by means of water and blood, Yeshua the Messiah - not with water only, but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.
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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.
7 There are three witnesses -
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And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true.
8 the Spirit, the water and the blood - and these three are in agreement.
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There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.
9 If we accept human witness, God's witness is stronger, because it is the witness which God has given about his Son.
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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.
10 Those who keep trusting in the Son of God have this witness in them. Those who do not keep trusting God have made him out to be a liar, because they have not trusted in 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.
11 And this is the witness: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in 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.
12 Those who have the Son have the life; those who do not have the Son of God do not have the life.
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He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.
13 I have written you these things so that you may know that you have eternal life - you who keep trusting in the person and power of the Son of God.
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I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.
14 This is the confidence we have in his presence: if we ask anything that accords with his will, he hears us.
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And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us:
15 And if we know that he hears us - whatever we ask - then we know that we have what we have asked from him.
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And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.
16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin that does not lead to death, he will ask; and God will give him life for those whose sinning does not lead to death. There is sin that does lead to death; I am not saying he should pray about that.
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If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.
17 All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.
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All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.
18 We know that everyone who has God as his Father does not go on sinning; on the contrary, the Son born of God protects him, and the Evil One does not touch him.
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We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.
19 We know that we are from God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the Evil One.
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We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.
20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us discernment, so that we may know who is genuine; moreover, we are united with the One who is genuine, united with his Son Yeshua the Messiah. He is the genuine God and eternal life.
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And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
21 Children, guard yourselves against false gods!
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My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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