6. Jesus Christ is the one who came. He came with water and with blood. He did not come by water only. No, Jesus came by both water and blood. And the Spirit tells us that this is true. The Spirit is the truth.
7. So there are three witnesses that tell us about Jesus:
8. the Spirit, the water, and the blood. These three witnesses agree.
9. We believe people when they say something is true. But what God says is more important. And this is what God told us: He told us the truth about his own Son.
10. Whoever believes in the Son of God has the truth that God told us. But people who do not believe God make God a liar, because they do not believe what God told us about his Son.
11. This is what God told us: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12. Whoever has the Son has life, but whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.