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            <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Faith in the Incarnate Son of God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1JN.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1JN.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1JN.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1JN.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1JN.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1JN.5.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1JN.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">This is the one who came by water and blood&#8212;Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1JN.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For there are three that testify: </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1JN.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">the</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">5:7,8 </span><span class="ft">Late manuscripts of the Vulgate </span><span class="fqa">testify in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. </span><span class="fv">8 </span><span class="fqa">And there are three that testify on earth: the </span><span class="ft">(not found in any Greek manuscript before the fourteenth century)</span></span></span><span class="content"> Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1JN.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">We accept human testimony, but God&#8217;s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1JN.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because they have not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1JN.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1JN.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Concluding Affirmations</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1JN.5.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1JN.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1JN.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1JN.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And if we know that he hears us&#8212;whatever we ask&#8212;we know that we have what we asked of him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1JN.5.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1JN.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If you see any brother or sister commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give them life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that you should pray about that. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1JN.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1JN.5.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1JN.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1JN.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1JN.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1JN.5.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1JN.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2JN.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The elder,</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2JN.1.1"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2JN.1.1"><span class="content">To the lady chosen by God and to her children, whom I love in the truth&#8212;and not I only, but also all who know the truth&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2JN.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever:</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2JN.1.2"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2JN.1.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2JN.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father&#8217;s Son, will be with us in truth and love.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2JN.1.3"></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2JN.1.3"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2JN.1.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2JN.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2JN.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2JN.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2JN.1.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2JN.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2JN.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Watch out that you do not lose what we</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:8 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">you</span></span></span><span class="content"> have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2JN.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2JN.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2JN.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2JN.1.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2JN.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I have much to write to you, but I do not want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to visit you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2JN.1.12"></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2JN.1.12"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2JN.1.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2JN.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The children of your sister, who is chosen by God, send their greetings.</span></span></div>
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