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1 John 5:11Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 1:12-131 John 2:29John 8:421 John 4:71 Pet 1:22-231 John 3:141 John 5:41 John 3:91 John 2:22-23John 3:3
1 John 5:22By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 13:34-351 John 2:51 John 3:22-241 John 4:21John 15:17
1 John 5:33For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 14:15John 15:10Deut 7:9John 14:21-241 John 2:32 John 1:6Mic 6:8John 15:14Rom 7:22Matt 11:28-30
1 John 5:44because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers the world. This is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 15:571 John 4:4John 16:331 John 3:91 John 5:5Rom 8:35-37Rev 3:21Rev 12:11Rev 3:5Rev 2:11
1 John 5:55Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 4:151 John 5:1
1 John 5:66Jesus Christ is the one who came by water and blood—not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 9:14John 15:26John 16:13Heb 12:24John 14:17Mark 14:24Luke 22:201 Pet 1:2Ezek 36:25Heb 13:20
1 John 5:77For there are three that testify,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 28:19Acts 5:32Matt 3:16-17John 1:11 John 5:6Acts 2:33John 8:54Isa 61:1John 1:32-34John 10:30
1 John 5:88the Spirit and the water and the blood, and these three are in agreement.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 5:6-7John 15:261 Pet 3:21Acts 2:2-4Rom 8:162 Cor 1:22Matt 26:26-28Matt 28:19Heb 13:12Heb 6:4
1 John 5:99If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 3:16-17Acts 17:31John 8:17-19Matt 17:51 John 5:10Acts 5:32Heb 2:4John 10:38John 3:32-33John 5:39
1 John 5:1010(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 8:16Gal 4:6John 3:33John 5:38Heb 3:121 John 5:1Col 3:3Num 23:19Ps 25:141 John 1:10
1 John 5:1111And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 6:231 John 2:25John 3:361 John 5:201 John 4:9John 1:41 John 1:1-3John 17:2-3John 10:28John 5:26
1 John 5:1212The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 3:36John 5:24John 1:121 Cor 1:30John 3:15Mark 16:162 John 1:91 John 2:23-24Gal 2:20Heb 3:14
1 John 5:1313I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 20:31John 1:121 John 3:232 Pet 1:10-11John 3:181 John 2:211 Tim 1:15-16Gal 4:6Rom 8:15-171 John 2:1
1 John 5:1414And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 14:13Jer 29:12-13Jer 33:31 John 3:21-22John 15:7Matt 7:7-11Matt 21:22Ps 34:17John 9:31Eph 3:12
1 John 5:1515And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 11:9-10Mark 11:24Prov 15:291 John 5:18-20
1 John 5:1616If anyone sees his fellow Christian committing a sin not resulting in death, he should ask, and God will grant life to the person who commits a sin not resulting in death. There is a sin resulting in death. I do not say that he should ask about that.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 6:4-61 Sam 2:25Jer 11:14Heb 10:26-31Mark 3:28-30Luke 12:10Matt 12:31-322 Pet 2:20-22Jer 14:11Jer 7:16
1 John 5:1717All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 3:4Jas 1:151 John 5:16Ezek 18:26-32Jas 4:7-101 John 2:1Deut 12:32Isa 1:18Deut 5:32Rom 5:20-21
1 John 5:1818We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 3:91 John 5:41 John 5:1Jude 1:21Jude 1:241 John 3:31 Pet 1:23Jas 1:271 John 2:29Ps 119:101
1 John 5:1919We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 4:41 John 4:4-6Eph 2:2Gal 1:4Rev 12:9John 12:31John 16:111 John 5:20John 15:18-19Rev 13:7-8
1 John 5:2020And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 17:3Luke 24:45John 14:91 Tim 3:16Isa 44:61 John 5:11-13John 1:1-31 John 4:161 John 5:1Isa 9:6
1 John 5:2121Little children, guard yourselves from idols.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:141 Cor 10:7Exod 20:3-42 Cor 6:16-171 Thess 1:9Matt 6:131 John 2:1Rev 9:20Rev 13:14-15Rev 14:11
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