5:1 Everyone who
believes that Jesus is the
Christ has been
fathered by God,
and everyone who
loves the
father loves the child
fathered by him.
2 By this we
know that we
love the
children of
God:
whenever we
love God and obey his commandments.
3 For this is the
love of
God:
that we
keep his commandments.
And his commandments do not weigh us
down,
4 because everyone who has been
fathered by God conquers the
world.
This is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith. 5 Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? 6 Jesus Christ is the one who came by water and blood—not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
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