1 John 5:1-12

Overcoming the World

1 ¹Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is ²born of God, and whoever loves the Father ³loves the child born of Him.

2 ⁴By this we know that ⁵we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments.

3 For ⁶this is the love of God, that we ⁷keep His commandments; and ⁸His commandments are not burdensome.

4 For whatever is ⁹born of God ¹⁰overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world -our faith.

5 Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who ¹¹believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

6 This is the One who came ¹²by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is ¹³the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

7 For there are ¹⁴three that testify:

8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.

9 ¹⁵If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for the testimony of God is this, that ¹⁶He has testified concerning His Son.

10 The one who believes in the Son of God ¹⁷has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has ¹⁸made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son.

11 And the testimony is this, that God has given us ¹⁹eternal life, and ²⁰this life is in His Son.

12 ²¹He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

Cross References

• 1. 1 John 2:22; 1 John 4:2, 15
• 2. John 1:3; John 3:3; 1 John 2:29; 1 John 5:4, 18
• 3. John 8:42
• 4. 1 John 2:5
• 5. 1 John 3:14
• 6. John 14:15; 2 John 6
• 7. 1 John 2:3
• 8. Matthew 11:30; Matthew 23:4
• 9. John 1:13; John 3:3; 1 John 2:29; 1 John 5:1, 18
• 10. 1 John 2:13; 1 John 4:4
• 11. 1 John 4:15; 1 John 5:1
• 12. John 19:34
• 13. Matthew 3:16; John 15:26; John 16:13-15
• 14. Matthew 18:16
• 15. John 5:34, 37; John 8:18
• 16. Matthew 3:17; John 5:32, 37
• 17. Romans 8:16; Gal 4-6; Revelation 12:17
• 18. John 3:18, 33; 1 John 1:10
• 19. John 3:36; 1 John 1:2; 1 John 2:25; 1 John 4:9; 1 John 5:13, 20
• 20. John 1:4
• 21. John 3:15f, 36

Footnotes

• [a]. I.e. Messiah
• [b]. Or "begotten"
• [c]. Lit "one who begets"
• [d]. Or "begotten"
• [e]. Lit "do"
• [f]. Or "begotten"
• [g]. Lit "in"
• [h]. Lit "in"
• [i]. Lit "in"
• [j]. A few late mss add "...in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. And there are three that testify on earth, the Spirit"
• [k]. Lit "for the one thing"