1. Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of Him.
2. This is how we know that we love God’s children when we love God and obey His commands.
3. For this is what love for God is: to keep His commands. Now His commands are not a burden,
4. because whatever has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.
5. And who is the one who conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6. Jesus Christ — He is the One who came by water and blood, not by water only, but by water and by blood. And the Spirit is the One who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
7. For there are three that testify:
8. the Spirit, the water, and the blood — and these three are in agreement.
9. If we accept the testimony of men, God’s testimony is greater, because it is God’s testimony that He has given about His Son.
10. (The one who believes in the Son of God has this testimony within him. The one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony God has given about His Son.)