1 John 5:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 3:36 : 36 The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.
  • John 5:24 : 24 “I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.
  • John 1:12 : 12 But to all who have received him– those who believe in his name– he has given the right to become God’s children
  • John 3:15 : 15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”
  • Mark 16:16 : 16 The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned.
  • 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.
  • 1 John 2:23-24 : 23 Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also. 24 As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
  • 2 John 1:9 : 9 Everyone 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 5:9-11
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    9If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.

    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.

  • 1 John 5:13
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    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.

  • John 3:35-36
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    35The Father loves the Son and has placed all things under his authority.

    36The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.

  • 1 John 2:22-25
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    22Who 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.

    23Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also.

    24As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

    25Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: 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 5:21-26
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    21For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

    22Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

    23so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

    24“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.

    25I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming– and is now here– when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

    26For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

  • 1 John 5:5-6
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    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 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 4:15
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    15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.

  • 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 3:15-16
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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.

  • John 6:47
    73%

    47I tell you the solemn truth, the one who believes has eternal life.

  • John 12:25
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    25The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

  • 1 John 5:1
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    1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

  • 1 John 3:14-15
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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.

    15Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

  • 1 John 3:10
    71%

    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.

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

  • 1 John 1:2-3
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    2and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us).

    3What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us(and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).

  • John 5:38-40
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    38nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

    39You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

    40but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

  • John 20:31
    70%

    31But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

  • 1 John 5:17-18
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    69%

    17All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.

    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 3:24
    69%

    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 John 2:15
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    15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

  • 1 John 4:12-13
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    69%

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

    13By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

  • 1 John 4:9
    69%

    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.

  • 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 3:1
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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.

  • 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.

  • 1 John 5:15
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    15And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

  • 1 John 1:5
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    5God Is Light, So We Must Walk in the Light Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

  • John 1:12
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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