{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/1-john/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T11:14:05.028Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"1 John","bookSlug":"1-john","chapter":5,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":null,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Every one that believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God; and every one that loves him that has begotten loves also him that is begotten of him."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Hereby know we that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For all that has been begotten of God gets the victory over the world; and this is the victory which has gotten the victory over the world, our faith."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Who is he that gets the victory over the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"This 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."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For they that bear witness are three:"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three agree in one."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God which he has witnessed concerning his Son."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has witnessed concerning his Son."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And this is the witness, that God has given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"He that has the Son has life: he that has not the Son of God has not life."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"These things have I written to you that ye may know that ye have eternal life who believe on the name of the Son of God."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And this is the boldness which we have towards him, that if we ask him anything according to his will he hears us."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And if we know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"If 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."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Every unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not to death."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"We know that every one begotten of God does not sin, but he that has been begotten of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the wicked one."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"And we know that the Son of God 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 true God and eternal life."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Children, keep yourselves from idols."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 John 5 (DBT)","markdown":"[1 John 5](https://primebible.com/dbt/1-john/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/1-john/5 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}