5. No one can defeat the world without having faith in Jesus as the Son of God.
6. Water and blood came out from the side of Jesus Christ. It wasn't just water, but water and blood. The Spirit tells about this, because the Spirit is truthful.
7. In fact, there are three who tell about it.
8. They are the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and they all agree.
9. We believe what people tell us. But we can trust what God says even more, and God is the one who has spoken about his Son.
10. If we have faith in God's Son, we have believed what God has said. But if we don't believe what God has said about his Son, it is the same as calling God a liar.
11. God has also said that he gave us eternal life and that this life comes to us from his Son.
12. And so, if we have God's Son, we have this life. But if we don't have the Son, we don't have this life.
13. All of you have faith in the Son of God, and I have written to let you know that you have eternal life.
14. We are certain that God will hear our prayers when we ask for what pleases him.
15. And if we know that God listens when we pray, we are sure that our prayers have already been answered.
16. Suppose you see one of our people commit a sin that isn't a deadly sin. You can pray, and that person will be given eternal life. But the sin must not be one that is deadly.
17. Everything that is wrong is sin, but not all sins are deadly.
18. We are sure that God's children do not keep on sinning. God's own Son protects them, and the devil cannot harm them.