51Every one that believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten ofGod; and every one that loves him that has begotten loves also him that is begotten of him.+2Hereby know we that we love the children ofGod, when we loveGod and keep his commandments.+3For this is the love ofGod, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous.+4For all that has been begotten ofGod gets the victory over the world; and this is the victory which has gotten the victory over the world, our faith.+5Who is he that gets the victory over the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son ofGod?+6This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus [the] Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, for the Spirit is the truth.+7For they that bear witness are three:+8the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three agree in one.+
God’s Testimony about His Son
9If we receive the witness of men, the witness ofGod is greater. For this is the witness ofGod [which] he has witnessed concerning his Son.+10He that believes on the Son ofGod has the witness in himself; he that does not believeGod has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness whichGod has witnessed concerning his Son.+11And this is the witness, thatGod has given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son.+12He that has the Son has life: he that has not the Son ofGod has not life.+
Effective Prayer
13These things have I written to you that ye may know that ye have eternal life who believe on the name of the Son ofGod.+14And this is the boldness which we have towards him, that if we ask him anything according to his will he hears us.+15And if we know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.+16If any one see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life, for those that do not sin unto death. There is a sin to death: I do not say of that that he should make a request.+17Every unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not to death.+
The True God
18We know that every one begotten ofGod does not sin, but he that has been begotten ofGod keeps himself, and the wicked [one] does not touch him.+19We know that we are ofGod, and the whole world lies in the wicked [one].+20And we know that the Son ofGod has come, and has given us an understanding that we should know him that [is] true; and we are in him that [is] true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the trueGod and eternal life.+21Children, keep yourselves from idols.+
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