1 John 5:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • John 3:36 : 36 He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him.
  • John 5:24 : 24 Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.
  • John 1:12 : 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:
  • John 3:15 : 15 So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.
  • Mark 16:16 : 16 He who has faith and is given baptism will get salvation; but he who has not faith will be judged.
  • 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;
  • 1 John 2:23-24 : 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. 24 But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.
  • 2 John 1:9 : 9 Anyone 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 86%

    9 If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.

    10 He 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.

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

  • 13 I 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.

  • John 3:35-36
    2 verses
    83%

    35 The Father has love for the Son and has put all things into his hands.

    36 He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him.

  • 79%

    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.

    24 But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.

    25 And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life.

  • 9 Anyone 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 5:21-26
    6 verses
    75%

    21 In the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives life to those to whom he is pleased to give it.

    22 The Father is not the judge of men, but he has given all decisions into the hands of the Son;

    23 So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him.

    24 Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

    25 Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.

    26 For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.

  • 1 John 5:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • 20 And 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.

  • 15 Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.

  • 18 The 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 3:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15 So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.

    16 For 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.

  • 47 Truly I say to you, He who has faith in me has eternal life.

  • 25 He who is in love with life will have it taken from him; and he who has no care for his life in this world will keep it for ever and ever.

  • 1 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.

  • 71%

    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.

    15 Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.

  • 10 In 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.

  • 6 Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.

  • 1 John 1:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2 (And the life was made clear to us, and we have seen it and are witnessing to it and giving you word of that eternal life which was with the Father and was seen by us);

    3 We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:

  • John 5:38-40
    3 verses
    70%

    38 And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.

    39 You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.

    40 And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.

  • 31 But these are recorded, so that you may have faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, having this faith you may have life in his name.

  • 69%

    17 All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.

    18 We 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.

  • 24 He 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.

  • 15 Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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

    13 And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

  • 9 And 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.

  • 18 No 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 See 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.

  • 5 But 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:

  • 15 And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.

  • 5 This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.

  • 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: