12. The person who has the Son has this life. The person who doesn’t have the Son of God doesn’t have this life.
13. I’ve written this to those who believe in the Son of God so that they will know that they have eternal life.
14. We are confident that God listens to us if we ask for anything that has his approval.
15. We know that he listens to our requests. So we know that we already have what we ask him for.
16. If you see another believer committing a sin that doesn’t lead to death, you should pray that God would give that person life. This is true for those who commit sins that don’t lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I’m not telling you to pray about that.
17. Every kind of wrongdoing is sin, yet there are sins that don’t lead to death.
18. We know that those who have been born from God don’t go on sinning. Rather, the Son of God protects them, and the evil one can’t harm them.