1. Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is God’s child. The person who loves the Father also loves the Father’s children.
2. How do we know that we love God’s children? We know because we love God and we obey his commands.
3. Loving God means obeying his commands. And God’s commands are not too hard for us.
4. Everyone who is a child of God has the power to win against the world. It is our faith that wins the victory against the world.
5. So the one who conquers the world is the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
6. Jesus Christ is the One who came with water and with blood. He did not come by water only. He came by both water and blood. And the Spirit says that this is true. The Spirit is the truth.
7. So there are three witnesses:
8. the Spirit, the water, and the blood. These three witnesses agree.
9. We believe people when they say something is true. But what God says is more important. And he has told us the truth about his own Son.
10. Anyone who believes in the Son of God has the truth that God told us. Anyone who does not believe makes God a liar. He does not believe what God told us about his Son.
11. This is what God told us: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.