1. Every one that believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God; and every one that loves him that has begotten loves also him that is begotten of him.
2. Hereby know we that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
3. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous.
4. For all that has been begotten of God gets the victory over the world; and this is the victory which has gotten the victory over the world, our faith.
5. Who is he that gets the victory over the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6. This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus the Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, for the Spirit is the truth.
7. For they that bear witness are three:
8. the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three agree in one.
9. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God which he has witnessed concerning his Son.
10. He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has witnessed concerning his Son.
11. And this is the witness, that God has given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son.
12. He that has the Son has life: he that has not the Son of God has not life.