1 John 4:18-5

English Standard Version

¹⁸There is no fear in love, but ^(A)perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not ^(B)been perfected in love. ¹⁹^(C)We love because he first loved us. ²⁰^(D)If anyone says, “I love God,” and ^(E)hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot^[a] love God ^(F)whom he has not seen. ²¹And ^(G)this commandment we have from him: ^(H)whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Overcoming the World

5 ^(I)Everyone who believes that ^(J)Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and ^(K)everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. ²^(L)By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. ³For ^(M)this is the love of God, that we ^(N)keep his commandments. And ^(O)his commandments are not burdensome. ⁴For ^(P)everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—^(Q)our faith. ⁵Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes ^(R)that Jesus is the Son of God?

Testimony Concerning the Son of God

⁶This is he who came ^(S)by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And ^(T)the Spirit is the one who testifies, because ^(U)the Spirit is the truth. ⁷For there are three that testify: ⁸the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. ⁹^(V)If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God ^(W)that he has borne concerning his Son. ¹⁰Whoever believes in the Son of God ^(X)has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God ^(Y)has made him a liar, ^(Z)because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. ¹¹And this is the testimony, that God gave us ^(AA)eternal life, and ^(AB)this life is in his Son. ¹²^(AC)Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

That You May Know

¹³I write ^(AD)these things to you who ^(AE)believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. ¹⁴And this is ^(AF)the confidence that we have toward him, that ^(AG)if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. ¹⁵And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

¹⁶If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and ^(AH)God^[b] will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. ^(AI)There is sin that leads to death; ^(AJ)I do not say that one should pray for that. ¹⁷^(AK)All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.

¹⁸We know that ^(AL)everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but ^(AM)he who was born of God ^(AN)protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.