1 John 5:1

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

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  • John 8:42 : 42 Jesus replied,“If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.
  • John 1:12-13 : 12 But to all who have received him– those who believe in his name– he has given the right to become God’s children 13 – children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.
  • 1 John 5:4 : 4 because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers the world. Testimony About the SonThis is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith.
  • 1 John 2:22-23 : 22 Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son. 23 Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also.
  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.
  • John 15:23 : 23 The one who hates me hates my Father too.
  • Rom 10:9-9 : 9 because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.
  • Matt 16:16 : 16 Simon Peter answered,“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
  • John 3:3 : 3 Jesus replied,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?
  • 1 John 4:2 : 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,
  • 1 John 4:7 : 7 God is Love Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.
  • 1 John 4:14-15 : 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.
  • 1 John 4:20 : 20 If anyone says“I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
  • John 6:69 : 69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God!”
  • Jas 1:18 : 18 By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
  • 1 Pet 1:3 : 3 New Birth to Joy and Holiness Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
  • 1 Pet 1:22-23 : 22 You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart. 23 You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.
  • 1 John 2:10 : 10 The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
  • 1 John 3:9 : 9 Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.
  • 1 John 3:14 : 14 We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

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  • 1 John 4:7-9
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    7God is Love Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

    8The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

    9By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

  • 1 John 2:29
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    29If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

  • 1 John 5:2-6
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    2By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

    3For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

    4because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers the world. Testimony About the SonThis is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith.

    5Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

    6Jesus Christ is the one who came by water and blood– not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

  • 1 John 3:9-11
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    9Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

    10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness– the one who does not love his fellow Christian– is not of God.

    11God Is Love, So We Must Love One Another For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,

  • 1 John 5:18
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    18We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.

  • 1 John 4:15-16
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    15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.

    16And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

  • 1 John 3:1-2
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    1(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

    2Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

  • John 3:15-16
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    15so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”

    16For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

  • 2 John 1:9
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    9Everyone who goes on ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.

  • John 1:12-13
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    12But to all who have received him– those who believe in his name– he has given the right to become God’s children

    13– children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.

  • 1 John 2:5
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    5But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

  • Eph 5:1
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    1Live in Love Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children

  • 1 John 5:10-13
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    10(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)

    11And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

    12The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.

    13Assurance of Eternal Life I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

  • 1 John 4:11-12
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    11Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

    12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

  • 1 John 3:14
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    14We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

  • 1 Pet 1:22-23
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    72%

    22You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

    23You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

  • 1 John 5:20
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    20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

  • 1 John 4:19-21
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    19We love because he loved us first.

    20If anyone says“I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

    21And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

  • 1 John 3:23-24
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    23Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.

    24And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.

  • 1 Pet 1:3
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    3New Birth to Joy and Holiness Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

  • Jas 1:18
    71%

    18By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

  • 1 John 3:6-7
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    6Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

    7Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.

  • 1 John 4:4
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    4You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

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

  • 1 John 4:2
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    2By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,

  • John 1:18
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    18No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.

  • 1 John 2:23
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    23Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also.

  • John 3:18
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    18The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

  • John 3:6
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    6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.