Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

Faith Overcomes the World

5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah^[a] has been born from God, and everyone who loves the parent also loves the child. ² This is how we know that we love God’s children: we love God and keep his commandments. ³ For this demonstrates our love for God: We keep his commandments, and his commandments are not difficult, ⁴ because everyone who is born from God has overcome the world. Our faith is the victory that overcomes the world. ⁵ Who overcomes the world? Is it not the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁶ This man, Jesus the Messiah,^[b] is the one who came by water and blood—not with water only, but with water and with blood. The Spirit is the one who verifies this, because the Spirit is the truth.