| 5:1 | EVERYONE who really believes that Jesus is the Christ is himself one of God's family. The man who loves the Father cannot help loving the Father's sons. |
| 5:2 | The test of our love for God's family lies in this questiondo we love God himself and do we obey his commands? |
| 5:3 | For loving God means obeying his commands, and these commands of his are not burdensome. |
| 5:4 | In fact, this faith of ours is the only way in which the world can be conquered. |
| 5:5 | For who could ever be said to conquer the world but the man who really believes that Jesus is God's Son? |
| 5:6 | Jesus Christ himself is the one who came by water and by bloodnot by the water only, but by the water and the blood. The Spirit bears witness to this, for the Spirit is the truth. |
| 5:7 | The witness therefore is a triple one |
| 5:8 | the Spirit, the water of baptism and the blood of atonementand they all say the same thing. |
| 5:9 | If we accept human testimony, God's own testimony concerning his own Son carries far more weight. |
| 5:10 | The man who really believes in the Son of God will find God's testimony in his own heart. The man who will not believe God is making him out to be a liar, because he is refusing to accept the testimony that God has given concerning his own Son. |
| 5:11 | This is, that God has given men eternal life and this real life is to be found only in his Son. |
| 5:12 | It follows naturally that any man who has Christ has this life; and if he has not, then he does not possess this life at all. |
| 5:13 | I have written like this to you who already believe in the name of God's Son so that you may be quite sure that, here and now, you possess eternal life. |
| 5:14 | We have such confidence in him that we are certain that he hears every request that is made in accord with his own plan. |
| 5:15 | And since we know that he invariably gives his attention to our prayers, whatever they are, we can be quite sure that what we have asked for is already ours. |
| 5:16 | If any of you should see his brother committing a sinnot a deadly sinhe should pray and God will give him life, provided the sin was not a deadly sin. I am not saying that you should pray about that; |
| 5:17 | every act of wrongdoing is a sin, but not all sin is deadly. |
| 5:18 | We know that the true child of God does not sin, he is in the charge of God's own Son and the evil one cannot touch him. |
| 5:19 | We know that we ourselves are children of God, and we also know that the world around us is under the power of the evil one. |
| 5:20 | We know too that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding to know the One who is true. We know that our life is in the true Onein his Son Jesus Christ. This is the real God and this is eternal life. |
| 5:21 | But be on your guard, my dear children, against every false god! |
1 Yohanes 5 - Philips NT in Modern English
