1 John 5:20

Bishops' Bible (1568)

We knowe that the sonne of God is come, & hath geuen vs a minde to know hym which is true: and we are in hym that is true, through his sonne Iesus Christe. This same is very God, and eternall lyfe.

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  • John 17:3 : 3 This is lyfe eternall, that they myght knowe thee, the only true God, & Iesus Christe whom thou hast sent.
  • Luke 24:45 : 45 Then opened he their wittes, that they myght vnderstande the scriptures.
  • John 14:9 : 9 Iesus sayth vnto hym: Haue I ben so long tyme with you, & yet hast thou not knowen me? Philip, he that hath seene me, hath seene the father. And howe sayest thou then, shewe vs the father?
  • Rev 3:7 : 7 And write vnto ye Angel of the Church of Philadelphia, this sayth he that is holy and true, which hath the key of Dauid, which openeth, and no man shutteth, and shutteth, and no man openeth.
  • Isa 9:6 : 6 For vnto vs a chylde is borne, and vnto vs a sonne is geuen, vpon his shoulder doth the rule lye, and he is called with his owne name wonderfull, the geuer of counsell, the mightie God, the euerlasting father, the prince of peace.
  • Isa 44:6 : 6 Thus hath the Lorde spoken, euen the kyng of Israel, and his redeemer the Lorde of hoastes: I am the first and the last, and besides me there is no God.
  • Rom 9:5 : 5 Of whom are the fathers, of whom as concernyng the fleshe, Christe came, which is God, in all thynges to be praysed for euer. Amen.
  • John 10:30 : 30 I and my father are one.
  • John 20:28 : 28 Thomas aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: My Lorde, and my God.
  • 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And without doubt, great is that misterie of godlynesse: God was shewed in the flesshe, was iustified in the spirite, was seene among the angels, was preached vnto the gentiles, was beleued on in the worlde, and was receaued vp in glorie.
  • Titus 2:13 : 13 Lokyng for that blessed hope and appearyng of the glorie of the great God, and our sauiour Iesus Christe,
  • Heb 1:8 : 8 But vnto the sonne he sayth Thy seate O God, shalbe for euer and euer: The scepter of thy kyngdome is a scepter of ryghteousnesse.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heede therfore vnto your selues, and to all the flocke, ouer the which the holy ghost hath made you ouerseers, to rule the Church of God, which he hath purchased with his owne blood.
  • John 1:1-3 : 1 In the begynnyng was the worde, & the worde was with God: and that worde was God. 2 The same was in the begynnyng with God. 3 All thynges were made by it: and without it, was made nothyng that was made.
  • 1 John 4:14 : 14 And we haue seene, and do testifie that the father sent the sonne to be the sauiour of the worlde.
  • 1 John 5:11-13 : 11 And this is the recorde, how that God hath geuen vnto vs eternall lyfe, and this lyfe, is in his sonne. 12 He that hath the sonne, hath lyfe: and he that hath not the sonne of God, hath not lyfe. 13 These thynges haue I written vnto you that beleue on ye name of the sonne of God, that ye may knowe howe that ye haue eternall lyfe, and that ye may beleue on the name of the sonne of God.
  • 1 John 4:16 : 16 And we haue knowen and beleued the loue that God hath to vs. God is loue, and he that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, and God in hym.
  • 1 John 5:1 : 1 Whosoeuer beleueth that Iesus is Christe, is borne of God: And euerie one that loueth him which begat, loueth hym also which is begotten of hym.
  • Rev 3:14 : 14 And vnto the Angel of the Churche which is in Laodicea, write: This saith Amen, the faythfull and true witnesse, the begynnyng of the creatures of God.
  • Rev 6:10 : 10 And they cryed with a loude voyce, saying: Howe long taryest thou Lorde, holy and true, to iudge and to auenge our blood on the that dwell on ye earth?
  • Rev 15:3 : 3 And they sang the song of Moyses the seruaunt of God, and the song of the lambe, saying: Great and marueylous are thy workes Lorde God almightie, iust and true are thy wayes thou kyng of saintes.
  • Rev 19:11 : 11 And I sawe heauen open, & beholde a white horse, and he that sate vpon him was called faythfull and true, and in ryghteousnesse he doth iudge and make battayle.
  • John 1:18 : 18 No man hath seene God at any tyme: The onely begotten sonne which is in the bosome of the father, he hath declared hym.
  • Matt 13:11 : 11 He aunswered and sayde vnto them: because it is geuen vnto you, to knowe the secretes of the kyngdome of heauen, but to them, it is not geuen.
  • Luke 21:15 : 15 For I wyll geue you a mouth, and wysedome, where agaynst, all your aduersaries shall not be able to speake nor resist.
  • Isa 45:14-15 : 14 Thus saith the Lorde, The occupiers of Egypt, the marchauntes of the Ethiopians and Sabees, shall come vnto thee with tribute, they shalbe thyne, they shall folowe thee, and go with chaines vpon their feete, they shall fall downe before thee, and make supplication vnto thee: for God without whom there is none other God, shalbe with thee. 15 O howe profounde art thou O God, thou God and sauiour of Israel?
  • Isa 45:21-25 : 21 Drawe nye, come hyther, and let them aske counsaile one at another, and shew foorth what is he that told this before? or who spake of it euer since the beginning? haue not I the Lorde done it? without whom there is none other God, the true God and sauiour, and there is els none but I. 22 And therfore turne you vnto me, all ye endes of the earth, that ye may be saued: for I am God, and there is els none. 23 I sweare by my self, out of my mouth commeth the worde of righteousnesse, and that may no man turne: but all knees shall bowe vnto me, and all tongues shall sweare by my name, 24 Saying: veryly in the Lorde is my righteousnesse and strength, to hym shall men come: but all they that thinke scorne of him shalbe confounded. 25 And the whole seede of Israel shalbe iustified, and glory in the Lorde.
  • Isa 54:5 : 5 For he that made thee shalbe thy Lorde and husbande (whose name is the Lord of hoastes) and thy redeemer shalbe euen the holy one of Israel, the Lorde of the whole worlde.
  • Jer 10:10 : 10 But the Lorde is a true God, a liuing God, and an euerlasting kyng: if he be wroth, the earth shaketh, all the gentiles may not abide his indignation.
  • John 14:20 : 20 That day shall ye knowe, that I am in my father, and you in me, & I in you.
  • John 14:23 : 23 Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto hym: If a man loue me, he wyll kepe my sayinges: and my father wyll loue hym, and we wyll come vnto hym, and dwell with hym.
  • John 15:4 : 4 Byde in me, and I in you. As the braunche can not beare fruite of it selfe, except it byde in the vine: no more can ye, except ye abyde in me.
  • John 17:14 : 14 I haue geuen them thy worde, and the worlde hath hated them, because they are not of the worlde, euen as I also am not of the worlde.
  • John 17:20-23 : 20 Neuerthelesse, I pray not for them alone: but for the also, which shall beleue on me through their preachyng: 21 That they all may be one, as thou father art in me, and I in thee, and that they also may be one in vs: that ye world may beleue, that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glorie which thou gauest me, I haue geuen them, that they may be one, as we also are one. 23 I in them, and thou in me: that they may be made perfecte in one, and that the worlde may knowe that thou hast sent me, and hast loued them, as thou hast loued me.
  • John 17:25 : 25 O ryghteous father, the worlde also hath not knowen thee: But I haue knowen thee, and these haue knowen that thou hast sent me.
  • John 14:6 : 6 Iesus sayth vnto hym: I am the way, and the trueth, and the lyfe. No man cometh vnto the father, but by me.
  • 1 John 1:1-3 : 1 That whiche was fro the beginning, whiche we haue heard, which we haue seene with our eyes, whiche we haue loked vpo, & our handes haue handeled of, the worde of lyfe: 2 (And the lyfe appeared, and we haue seene, and beare witnesse, and shewe vnto you that eternall lyfe which was with the father, and appeared vnto vs.) 3 That which we haue seene and heard declare we vnto you, that ye also maye haue felowship with vs, and that our felowship may be with the father, and his sonne Iesus Christe.
  • 1 John 2:6 : 6 He that sayth he bydeth in him, ought to walke euen as he walked.
  • 1 John 2:24 : 24 Let therfore abyde in you, that same whiche ye hearde from the begynnyng. If that whiche ye hearde from the begynnyng shall remayne in you, ye also shall continue in the sonne, and in the father.
  • 1 John 4:2 : 2 Hereby shall ye knowe the spirite of God: Euery spirite that confesseth that Iesus Christe is come in the fleshe, is of God:
  • 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 And of hym are ye in Christe Iesu, whiche of God is made vnto vs wisedome, and righteousnesse, and sanctification, and redemption:
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For it is God that commaundeth the lyght to shine out of darknesse, whiche hath shined in our heartes, for to geue the lyght of the knowledge of the glorie of God, in the face of Iesus Christe.
  • 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 Therfore yf any man be in Christe, he is a newe creature. Olde thynges are passed awaye, beholde all thynges are become newe.
  • Eph 1:17-19 : 17 That the God of our Lorde Iesus Christe, the father of glorie, may geue vnto you the spirite of wisdome and reuelation, in the knowledge of hym: 18 The eyes of your myndes beyng lightened, that ye maye knowe what the hope is of his callyng, and what the richesse of the glorie of his inheritaunce is in the saintes: 19 And what is the exceedyng greatnesse of his power to vswarde, which beleue, accordyng to the workyng of his myghtie power,
  • Eph 3:18 : 18 Myght be able to comprehende with al saintes, what is the breadth, & length, and deapth, and heygth:
  • Phil 3:9 : 9 And be founde in hym, not hauyng myne owne ryghteousnesse which is of the lawe: but that which is through the fayth of Christ, the ryghteousnes which commeth of God through fayth:
  • Col 2:2-3 : 2 That their heartes myght be comforted, beyng knyt together in loue, and in al riches of certaintie of vnderstanding, to knowe the misterie of God, and of the father, and of Christe, 3 In whom are hyd all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge.
  • Jer 23:6 : 6 In his tyme shall Iuda be saued, and Israel shall dwell without feare: and this is the name that they shall call hym, euen the Lorde our righteousnesse.

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    9If we receaue the witnesse of men, the witnesse of God is greater: For this is the witnesse of God that is greater which he testified of his sonne.

    10He that beleueth on the sonne of God, hath the witnesse in hym selfe: He that beleueth not God, hath made hym a lyer, because he beleued not the recorde that God gaue of his sonne.

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    13These thynges haue I written vnto you that beleue on ye name of the sonne of God, that ye may knowe howe that ye haue eternall lyfe, and that ye may beleue on the name of the sonne of God.

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