Parallel Bible results for "1-John 5:1-6"

1 John 5:1-6

Common English Bible CEB

1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born from God. Whoever loves someone who is a parent loves the child born to the parent.

2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep God's commandments.

3 This is the love of God: we keep God's commandments. God's commandments are not difficult,

4 because everyone who is born from God defeats the world. And this is the victory that has defeated the world: our faith.

5 Who defeats the world? Isn't it the one who believes that Jesus is God's Son?

6 This is the one who came by water and blood: Jesus Christ. Not by water only but by water and blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

The Message Bible MSG

1 Every person who believes that Jesus is, in fact, the Messiah, is God-begotten. If we love the One who conceives the child, we'll surely love the child who was conceived.

2 The reality test on whether or not we love God's children is this: Do we love God? Do we keep his commands?

3 The proof that we love God comes when we keep his commandments and they are not at all troublesome.

4 Every God-begotten person conquers the world's ways. The conquering power that brings the world to its knees is our faith.

5 The person who wins out over the world's ways is simply the one who believes Jesus is the Son of God.

6 Jesus - the Divine Christ! He experienced a life-giving birth and a death-killing death. Not only birth from the womb, but baptismal birth of his ministry and sacrificial death. And all the while the Spirit is confirming the truth, the reality of God's presence at Jesus' baptism and crucifixion, bringing those occasions alive for us.[(s15.7)] A triple testimony: