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Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

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By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

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For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

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For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

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Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

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This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

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For there are three who testify:

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the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and the three agree as one.

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If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God's testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.

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He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn't believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

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The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

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He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.