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.
13. I write this letter to you who believe in the Son of God. I write so that you will know that you have eternal life now.
14. We can come to God with no doubts. This means that when we ask God for things (and those things agree with what God wants for us), God cares about what we say.
15. He listens to us every time we ask him. So we know that he gives us whatever we ask from him.
16. Suppose you see your fellow believer sinning (sin that does not lead to eternal death). You should pray for them. Then God will give them life. I am talking about people whose sin does not lead to eternal death. There is sin that leads to death. I don’t mean that you should pray about that kind of sin.