Faith in the Son of God: Overcoming and Eternal Life
1 John 5:1-12
1Everyone who trusts that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten of God, and everyone who loves the one who begot also loves the one who has been begotten of him.2By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep his commandments.3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not burdensome.4Because everyone who has been begotten of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.5Who is the one who overcomes the world except the one who trusts that Jesus is the Son of God?6This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ—not by water only but by water and by blood; and the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.7For there are three who testify:8the Spirit and the water and the blood, and these three are one.9If we accept human testimony, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified about his Son.10Whoever trusts in the Son of God has the testimony within himself; whoever does not trust God has made him a liar, because he has not trusted the testimony that God has testified about his Son.11And this is the testimony: that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.12The one who has the Son has life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have life.