9. We accept the witness of people. But the witness of God is more important because it is God who gives it. He has given witness about his Son.
10. Those who believe in the Son of God have accepted that witness in their hearts. Those who do not believe God's witness are calling him a liar. That's because they have not believed his witness about his Son.
11. Here is God's witness. He has given us eternal life. That life is found in his Son.
12. Those who belong to the Son have life. Those who do not belong to the Son of God do not have life.
13. I'm writing these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God. I'm doing it so you will know that you have eternal life.
14. There is one thing we can be sure of when we come to God in prayer. If we ask anything in keeping with what he wants, he hears us.
15. If we know that God hears what we ask for, we know that we have it.