1 John 5:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

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  • John 8:42 : 42 Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.
  • John 1:12-13 : 12 To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name: 13 Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
  • 1 John 5:4 : 4 Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.
  • 1 John 2:22-23 : 22 Who is false but he who says that Jesus is not the Christ? He is the Antichrist who has no belief in the Father or the Son. 23 He who has no belief in the Son has not the Father: he who makes clear his belief in the Son has the Father.
  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.
  • John 15:23 : 23 He who has hate for me has hate for my Father.
  • Rom 10:9-9 : 9 Because, if you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and have faith in your heart that God has made him come back from the dead, you will have salvation: 10 For with the heart man has faith to get righteousness, and with the mouth he says that Jesus is Lord to get salvation.
  • Matt 16:16 : 16 And Simon Peter made answer and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
  • John 3:3 : 3 Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.
  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?
  • 1 John 4:2 : 2 By this you may have knowledge of the Spirit of God: every spirit which says that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:
  • 1 John 4:7 : 7 My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.
  • 1 John 4:14-15 : 14 And we have seen and give witness that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 15 Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.
  • 1 John 4:20 : 20 If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?
  • John 6:69 : 69 And we have faith and are certain that you are the Holy One of God.
  • Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.
  • 1 Pet 1:3 : 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,
  • 1 Pet 1:22-23 : 22 And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart: 23 Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.
  • 1 John 2:10 : 10 He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.
  • 1 John 3:9 : 9 Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.
  • 1 John 3:14 : 14 We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

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  • 1 John 4:7-9
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    7My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

    8He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

    9And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

  • 1 John 2:29
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    29If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

  • 1 John 5:2-6
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    2In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

    3For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

    4Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.

    5Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?

    6This is he who came by water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by blood.

  • 1 John 3:9-11
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    9Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

    10In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

    11Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;

  • 1 John 5:18
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    18We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

  • 1 John 4:15-16
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    15Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.

    16And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

  • 1 John 3:1-2
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    1See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

    2My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

  • John 3:15-16
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    15So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.

    16For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

  • 2 John 1:9
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    9Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.

  • John 1:12-13
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    12To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:

    13Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

  • 1 John 2:5
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    5But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:

  • Eph 5:1
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    1Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;

  • 1 John 5:10-13
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    10He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.

    11And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

    12He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.

    13I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.

  • 1 John 4:11-12
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    11My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

    12No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

  • 1 John 3:14
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    14We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

  • 1 Pet 1:22-23
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    22And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

    23Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

  • 1 John 5:20
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    20And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

  • 1 John 4:19-21
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    19We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

    20If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

    21And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

  • 1 John 3:23-24
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    23And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.

    24He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.

  • 1 Pet 1:3
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    3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,

  • Jas 1:18
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    18Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

  • 1 John 3:6-7
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    6Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.

    7My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;

  • 1 John 4:4
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    4You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

  • Gal 3:26
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    26Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • 1 John 4:2
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    2By this you may have knowledge of the Spirit of God: every spirit which says that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:

  • John 1:18
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    18No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.

  • 1 John 2:23
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    23He who has no belief in the Son has not the Father: he who makes clear his belief in the Son has the Father.

  • John 3:18
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    18The man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of the only Son of God.

  • John 3:6
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    6That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.