1. Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God; and anyone that loves him that begat also loves him that is born of him.
2. In this we know that we love the sons of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
3. For this is the charity of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievous.
4. For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
5. Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6. This is Jesus, the Christ, who came by water and blood; not by water only, but by water and blood. And the Spirit is he that bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.
7. For there are three that bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.
8. And there are three that bear witness on earth, the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these 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 testified of his Son.